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/DISPLAY BALGRP shows decreasing value once BALGDEQD goes over x'80000000'.

The RFE was submitted by IMS L2 support on behalf of KYNDRYL NORWAY A S/DISPLAY BALGRP shows confusing values once the ENQ/DEQ numbers reach 999999999.There is a full word counter(BALGDEQD) in the BALG control block. It is incremented for every me...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

ADDI - One Single Repository

Currently the product does not support having a single repository for a user group based on a secondary authid.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Proposal for a new C5(MSG) CICS Translator suboption to produce a warning message instead of runtime abend due to excessive COMMAREA length

In new CICS releases the LINK program using a COMMAREA > 32 K produces LENGERR abend. Mitigating the abend to a warning message would facilitate the process to a newer CICS versions (>v5.4).
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Command for Start and Stop API/Service support in zCEE

We need support for STOPing or STARTing an API/Service using MODIFY COMMANDS similar to enable/disable the ports.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

BAQ-RESPONSE-LEN should fit the real length of the returned data.

BAQ-RESPONSE-LEN should fit the real length of the returned data.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

J2C Protocol support on zAPM Connect

The WAS Socket communication links, based on the J2C protocol does not support header injection (tagging) to allow correlation of transactions and visualization of zOS components on the AppDynamics Controller GUI.Approximately 50% of our organizat...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

CICS Transaction Server to become ws-trust 1.4 compliant

To be able to fetch a token from IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) and following WS-trust 1.4 rules for signing, CICS need to be able to also sign an element in the SOAP header. This could be a timestamp, nonce or a sequence number. From WS-trust...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

"Unreachable code" should not be considered as a syntax errors

If Identifity unreachable code is selected as "Warning" in Preferences / COBOL/ Real-time syntax checking, new errors appears in Software Analyzer. Theese errors could not be corrected while code is generated with RPP and it would be useful they d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Future consideration

pipe PARSE function in EDIT STage should permit the utilization of Hex Strings.

Command output may have data separators of specific hexstrings instead of the standard X'40' Currently the Edit stage does not permit the usage of hexString in the PARSE function which indicates you cannot separate the data.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Support IMU Explorer functions in IBM Developer for z and IBM Z Open Editor

IMU Explorer is a stand-along Eclipse utility and for customers using IDz or IBM Z Open Editor, it provides a disconnected experience for end users. Developers have to manage the connection and configuration separately and the workspace is separat...
over 1 year ago in IBM Migration Utility for z/OS 2 Future consideration

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