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Add granularity to coding rules in DFHAPIR

This is to allow better control/restriction on the use of CICS SPI commands by the application programmers.
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Cross hair support in the 3270 Host emulator Cursor RDz

The 3270 emulators ( PCOMM for example), supports Cross-Hair cursor ( also called Cross Line - where you have vertical and Horizontal lines in the 3270 cursor) , and we request the same feature in the 3270 Host emulator of RDz.
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 5 Not under consideration

Support native SOCKS proxy configuration

With the integration to WatsonX Code Assistant, connection to DB2 on Cloud is needed. Often the ADDI server is required to be on-premises for security reasons and this is inside a firewalled environment. If the software contained native support fo...
3 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Fix of the issue where internal variables can be corrupted if a failure occurs during information transmission between GM-K and GM-R

Previously, there was a suggestion from the Development team that simultaneous initialization of GM-K and GM-R might corrupt internal variable information. However, even if we were to avoid simultaneous initialization, it was found that there is s...
3 months ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically switch between Global Mirror and Metro Mirror

Barclays would like the ability to dynamically switch a Global Mirror relationship to a Metro Mirror relationship managed by GDPS. This would allow us to perform a Site Swap without a sysplex outage
about 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Automated backup of IDz workspace

Automate the backup of IDz workspace.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

LPAR/System Status Tracking within GDPS

GDPS will keep track the statu of the LPAR/System and display in the Standard Actions Panel. When a user perform an action against a LPAR/system, the status will change accordingly (e.g. after using GDPS to activate an LPAR, the status will change...
over 7 years ago in GDPS 13 Not under consideration

Threadsafe IPICSERVER Connection Configuration Option THREADSAFE=YES

IPICSERVER section THREADSAFE=YES configuration parameter, to DPL as Threadsafe for IPIC Connections into CICS. CICS PPT DFHMIRS is Threadsafe. This would initially start the task on an Open L8 TCB in CICS, rather than starting on QR, further redu...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Avoid API Request failures when the API request/response structure has non-breaking changes.

Context: We are using z/OS Connect's API requester function to make ReST API calls from COBOL Batch programs. We use the Swagger definition (Open API 2.0) of the API, to build the API requester artifacts (COBOL Copybooks and ARA package) via zconb...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Reopen data sets after restart

Local files are reopened after restarting Eclipse automatically, remote z/OS file aren't. Please add an option to have also the last z/OS Data sets / members opened, that were open upon shutdown.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

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