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IDz Cobol Editor Column 1 to 6

In the Cobol Editor we want to have a special handling for column 1 to 6. 1) Every keystroke in column 1 to 6 should trade as entered in overwrite mode when you have any none whitespace char in column 7 to 72. 2) STRG-V with a Content fitting in c...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Update CICS WS Security to allow stronger signatures

update CICS Transaction Server to allow stronger signatures
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

ZDT Tools API interface : Provide API to request License Status

New API needed !When using the Query_License script( /opt/IBM/LDK/query_license), it returns informations regarding licensing (logins CPU, max logins CPU, currently active sessiosn with associatied IP adress,...) We need to get this functionnality...
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

OTMA Front-End Switch

Our IMS client has following business requirement : DataPower ==> ICON8 ==> IMS A ==> ICON3 ==> IMS B ==> ICON3 ==> IMS A ==> ICON8 ==> DataPower We need the IMS front-end switch function so that the send-receive call from ...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

ISF0413-1606 IDAA Support for IMS data

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: gregory.debo.bipd@statefarm.comSubmitters Company: State Farm PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: ISF0413-1606 IDAA Support for IMS dataHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Information ManagementCurrent Status:...
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

Request CICS level DS 2dispatch trace entries be available in level DS 3

Certain CICS trace entries that identify when a dispatch activity changes TCBs are located in level DS 2 type traces while other trace entries for similar dispatch mode changes appear in both level 2 and 3. We request that all dispatch entries tha...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

An option not to reset counts on USS stats records

In some of our regions we use DADS to open/close files in our regions. This can happen several times a day. Each time a file is closed a USS record is written to SMF and the count is reset to 0. Therefore, we have loads of USS records for files an...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Comparing 2 nullable values that are both null returns false

We have 2 variables that are nullable (for example: nullable ints or nullable dates).If both variables are null, and we check them for equality, the result should be true, but it's false. Code example:a, b int?;a = null;b = null;if(a == b) writeSt...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Configuration Manager should use the CPSM infrastructure if available

Currently, using CM to perform "install" operations for configurations that are CSD based (as opposed to BAS based) requires defining connections to all possible target regions for the installation operations and also running the CM agent code in ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Customization of warning or error messages from different plugin tools

If any branch is deleted or access issue and ,we try to do Git pull on that branch in IDz using Egit ,It use to through the error 'problem occured' and after expanding the error it is giving the error message . Pulling 1 repository Remote origin ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

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