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IMS Support of MQSERIES queue-sharing group

As CICS, IMS should support the MQSERIES queue-sharing group. IMS partially support the DB2 data sharing groups. Why not MQSERIES part ?
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Include MQ poison message handling in CICS

The JMS API uses the Backout Queue and Backout Queue Threshold defined in the queue for handling poison messages. This functionality would be very beneficial for handling poison messages in the CICS triggering facility.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

IDz: Support Open New View (Ctrl+2) in COBOL, PL/I, and JCL editors

While editing COBOL, PL/I, and JCL files in IDz the LPEX editor supports View > Open New View (Ctrl+2). This option is powerful and yet unavailable in the COBOL, PL/I, and JCL editors. This causes developers to flip flop between LPEX and other ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

add move command for members of libraries

When moving a member from a library to another using RDz (RemoteSystemsView or z/OSProjectsView), you have to copy the file and delete if afterwards. It would be useful to have a move/cut command for files.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Reduce the number of steps necessary to show annotations

Showing annotations currently is a three-step-process: Right-Clicking a program, Selecting "Annotations - Show Annotations" and finally hitting search. The mandatory click on "Search" should happen automatically when clicking on "Show annotations"...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Filter on MVS files in a workspace

We are currently are using RDz 9.1.1 ! I would like to be able to create a global workspace so various users at our enterprise can use it.In that workspace, would I like to be able to create (MVS Files) filters with user id as a part of the filter...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

ZRTMC results monitor – phase 2: components and self healing

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Submenu/Folder

It would be very useful to add functions that allows us to group menu entries, without using SSPL programming, to build a menu like this: Main Menu - TSO- CICS- Omegamon- System Automation- etc We select TSO and another menu will appear, in exampl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS TS - Auditing CEMT commands

Auditing system programming interface commands generates messages which are directed to the CADS transient data queue.At the moment only partial data are written in SMF RACF records, insufficient to build a security audit log from this source. To ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

HATS parsing of data in services response for index variables

When HATS returns data in a service response for an indexed variable, it returns the data as a single string with all of the data concatenated together. This is difficult to consume and not at all what is expected in a service (either SOAP or REST...
over 5 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Not under consideration