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Increased Functionality in the Transform on Response Mappings

Currently the multiple response code transform seems to happen after the IMS response message is placed in given response layout. I would like to request an option to have the transform happen before the IMS response message layout. For Example:If...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

CICS Dynamic Caching

The RFE is for the ability to support dynamic caching in CICS. This was recently discussed at the UK CICS User Group in Manchester and a paper is attached outlining some of the requirements, use cases and outlines how the solution may appear from ...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Is there any way to add 43x132 Screen Size feature into HOD?

Currently, the following Screen Size-s available: 24x80, 32x80, 43x80, 27x132, 62x160 We usually use 43x80 to see more lines. But sometimes the 27x132 would be better to see all the messages in eg. system log or log of the subsystems to see every ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Not under consideration

Deinstallation of IBM Installaion Manager products doesn't clean up the package group directories

After deinstalloation of IBM Installaion Manager products, the package group directories are not deleted. This is the same behaviour with all Software installed by Installation Manager and therefore seems to be a Problem with the Installation Mana...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

TXSeries supports DB2 pureScale on Linux

TXSeries supports DB2 pureScale for AIX platform, but not for Linux.TXSeries for Linux also should support DB2 pureScale for customres who requires high reliability and high performance for mission critical system.
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Adding IBM Deep search with ChatGPT Codex (or IBM Coding Services) by AI driven Coding training and inference ( can be Human Supervised)

Using IBM Deep search with Coding services will train the AI System for Optimized code and it will make the software development more efficient in coding, testing, tracking and debugging. Also may be add the AI driven DevOps Orchestration
over 1 year ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 11 Not under consideration

Option to control resouce limiting for multiple regions from once OMEG Global member

With current feature of resource limit, we can't write separate resource limiting rules based on the region name if we use the same OMEG global member for multiple regions. Looking for an option that we can mention in resource limiting rules based...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE multi-tenancy support

We have versioned Cics applications (with application platform context). This means we have one Program name with multiple versions behind: for example: program - version - (Cics operation/entrypoint) - url PROGA - V1.0 - readCustomer - /customer/...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

RDz LPEX ISPF Editor SORT priority alpha vs numeric order incorrectly sorts numeric first

Rational Developer for System z LPEX ISPF Editor SORT priority alpha vs numeric order incorrectly sorts numeric first Input:5 2 alternate8 0 binaryZ 0 cola8 0 decimal3 2 entrylevel5 1 flash6 0 grafics2 0 helium3 1 integer5 3 joinme Boundary 1 100S...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

RFE IDz Remote Systems View should be able to sort datasets alphabetical by dataset name only

RFE IDz Remote Systems View should be able to sort datasets alphabetical by dataset name only and not by type-based order like when listing a mix of non-migrated and migrated (DFSMShsm HMIGRATE) datasets. This is currently by design. No doubt, if ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration