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ADDI-Support for current version of PL/I

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the PL/I scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of IBM(R) Enterprise PL/I for z/OS.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Uncommenting and Commenting Lines in PL/I Editor

In the Eclipse there is the possibility to comment out individual lines of code or entire blocks of code using the shortcut "Ctrl + 7".It would make working with RTC easier if there was a shortcut for the eclipse-based development of PLI in RTC.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Unable AAM to remove its hooks after a clean startup

After starting AAM if the need arises to return to the previous product a system IPL is necessary to clean up AAM system intercepts. When deploying AAM in a production environment it may not become apparent that AAM needs to be backed out until th...
about 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Expose CPSM TDQGBL resource table through the CICS GraphQL API.

I would like to extract global transient data statistics from the CPSM TDQGBL resource table using the GraphQL API. In the past I have extracted these statistics using the CMCI API to query the CICSGlobalTDQueueStatistics resource. Having looked a...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

IDz headless Code Coverage daemon support CCS call to locate via "testIds"

The current Code Coverage Service RESTful API only support to locate a result via "result id" which we actually don't know in runtime. What we actually know in runtime after executing a code coverage is the "testIds" So we need the API support to ...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Syntax Check Facility in RTC-Userbuild to support error feedback

The Syntax Check Facility for user build works for the setup, when the input file to the compiler is also defined as the input of the translator. As soon as the client uses a translator running a preprocessor resolving macros in a dedicated step, ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Future consideration

Enhance DFSDASP0 to not suppress messages when it issues the RACF AUTH call (when ODBASE=Y)

It was determined that we will rely on APSB security checking to control access for applications using the DVM product to access IMS data. This is working as expected. However, we are only getting the following in our system log:DFS2855A APSB SECU...
about 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Future consideration

ADDI to Discover Db2 Sequences

ADDIs source code analysis doesn't currently detect Db2 sequences. This requirement is to have Sequences detected and registered in the ADDI database.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

JSON support for IMS PA DEDB Update Activity report (FPDBURPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS DEDB Update Activity report (DD FPDBURPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Enable the transmission of chained certificates through a configuration option

The current SSL processing for InetD transmits the first certificate contained in the designated certificate file. Provide an SSL configuration option for InetD, MQ, High-speed connector, etc. to also transmit any chained certificates contained in...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration