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Translate Authorization ID in IMS MPP

Translate Authorization ID into another before calling Stored Procedure in DB2
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Controlling overflow behaviour in z/OS Enterprise COBOL

Current COBOL behaviour when any kind of overflow occurs on a MOVE, COMPUTE, ADD, MULTIPLY statement, unless ON SIZE ERROR was specified, not including MOVE which doesn't accomodate ON SIZE ERROR directive - is to ignore and not handle the conditi...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

SSRANGE option to omit Reference Modification from range checking

Add an SSRANGE sub-option that omits COBOL Reference Modification from range checking.
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

PCOM should accept MacBook Umlaut keys

PCOM is called from a macbook via Citrix session. We have to enter german text to mainframe panels. PCOM should not ignore the umlaut keys (ü ä ö ß) on the right side of the german Keyboard of a macbook.
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Improved RPP Compares

We do walkthroughs of our code changes by stepping through the compare report. When doing this for a Screen, there are tons of differences in generated code. We'd like an option to ignore generated differences. Or an improvement to the compare alg...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Check the value of SQLCODE after an EXEC SQL statement

IBM shipped out of box rules include a rule called EXEC SQL: Check the value of SQLCODE after an EXEC SQL statement for Cobol Application language.Where as PL/I does not have that rule.AS per suggestion from Steve Spirk this can be raised as an RFE
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Cloud enable ADDI servers

Currently the servers for ADDI are set up to be physical or virtual machines. It is configured for that particular installation. Others that tried using the cloud solution had to build an image for that particular instance and had to build another...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

DFHWS2LS java/lang/OutOfMemoryError Out Of Memory OOM

When too many Operations are chosen, the job executing DFHWS2LS gets error message "java/lang/OutOfMemoryError"The problem is that it doesn't take very many operations to be "too many". Also, there is not guidance on how many operations can be inc...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

IDz Table views to have filters directly in column and provide search for tables

Direct filters on columns will provide quick results which sometimes is what's only needed. Same with the ability to quickly search a Table.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

kill transactions based on elapsed time

Provide a way for IMS to automatically timeout transactions based on the total time elapsed from the transaction first being queued.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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