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Request to retain PSB and DBD COMMENTS in IMS Explorer toolset & IMS Catalog

Travelers needs both the IMS Explorer toolset and the IMS Catalog to retain PSB/DBD COMMENTS. We have historical tracking comments at the top of our PSBs and DBDs. The comments we want to keep are at the top. We don't care about the ones in the mi...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

XML Generate not aware of CDATA section, was: case numer TS004007239

Handling of Data within a CDATA Section when generating XML is incorrect. The COBOL compiler starts to escape characters within a CDATA section when that section contains (valid) XML. According to the official XML standards, it should NOT modify A...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Add "user" field to PARMBLK

TI has a usermod where we require a field in PARMBLK (PXPARMS) to chain one of our data areas. This usermod has existed for 30+ years. We use one of the "reserved" fullwords at the end of PXPARMS to store the address of this area. We use the last ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

Add warning option when setting a DFSVSMxx LOCKTIME value

Currently when setting LOCKTIME in DFSVSMxx to set a timeout value, the options available for BMPOPT and MSGOPT are to either abend, or return a BD status code to the application. Neither are currently feasible because the application may not be a...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 28 Not under consideration

EPLI V4.3 generated code compares badly to OS PL/I V2.3 generated code

In a very grey past, I was taught that the best way to initialize an array of structures was to use either array_of_struc(1) = '';array_of_struct(*) = array_of_struct(1); or, if this initialisation had to be done multiple times, to create a STATIC...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Programmatic prerequisite/configuration checker for Application Discovery Server machines

Paraphrasing colleague Roberto C after a recent issue where a WinSrv 2012 R2 machine didn't have certain Windows patches and didn't have Visual C++ components that were apparently required by Application Discovery Build's installation program for ...
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow functions to be applied to the Request and Response mappings of APIs

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include functions. I have included some examples below in the use case section, but the mapping capability within API Toolkit should ideally be aligned to that provided by API C...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the CICS design to access SMSVSAM in parallel.

We'd like to propose the following CICS design changes:1) Have a completely separate TCB or a pool of TCBs to process only the QUIESCE and UNQUIESCE SEND and RECEIVE elements. This TCB or pool of TCBs should never be used for OPEN and CLOSE reques...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

ZDT Webtools server Export/Import Images

We request a new enhancement :Ability to export an image localized on a Webtool Server (web1) to another WebTool Server( WEB2).This request is motivated by : - The need to secure our images on multiple Server.- Several problem encounters during mi...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Threadsafe for function shipping over MRO

We are looking to use threadsafe to improve the throughput in our CICS regions. We keep coming to the need to have function shipping threadsafe using MRO (XM/XCF). We have tested using IPCONN, as recommended, and find that the resource usage is un...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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