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DFSYDT suffix to be independant of the IMS Nucleus Suffix

We run multiple IMS environments on single LPAR's. Each IMS Environment has the same IMS Nucleus Suffix. We require different DFSYDT members for each environment as the descriptors defined for each environment are unique per IMS environment. We re...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

XMLCHAR Builtin function to support DBCS

Enhance XMLCHAR PL/I built-in function, to support the DBCS characters. Today it supports only Single byte Alphanumeric, numeric, decimals and String values.
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Enhance EYU9XEUT to delete data spaces for individual CMAS

Currently, the CICSPlex System Manager utility EYU9XEUT batch utility can be used to display various items of information about the Environment Services System Services (ESSS) on the image or terminate the address space proving the services. Shoul...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Need a field (attribute), of the TASK resource table, which allows me to have the CPU time of a "THREADSAFE" task.

In a threadsafe application, all DB2 Requests stays on L8 TCB.The cputime is only going to get updated when we come off the L8 TCB. (If it were a quasirent applicatoion and switched back to QR after every DB2 request, the cputime would be accumula...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Filter Pool - Rename function for "technical/special" filters

Hi, the IDz automatically generates "special filters" in the filter pool view with a technical name: CN-Connection-Name-xxxx (See attachment). Which says nothing and does not look pretty. Since I can't delete them (they are automatically generated...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Provide CL/SuperSession sample exit for externalizing ICHRRPF group list details

A sample exit is desired for returning if a user is attached to a particular RACF profile. This might not be the profile that authorized the user to access CL/SuperSession itself. RACF stores the group list in the ACEE +x6C currently, after the us...
almost 9 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide option to copy zFS logs to VSAM files

Team, Please add functionality into z/OS Connect code to provide an option to copy the zFS logs to VSAM Files. Thanks, Pawan.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow the Use of default Session Template files

With the focus on enhancing security we have enabled TLS on the server side (z/OS & IBM i systems). We would like to be able to have some session Link parameter defaults changed so that user created "New" sessions default to use TLS/992 instea...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Not under consideration

allowing limiting access on commands to individual TRANs and PGMs

Allow extra granularity for controlling and granting access to a group or individual to issues commands against specific transactions or programs, potentially by the program or transaction name to a RACF profile name.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

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