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Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ Support REPLACE directive with ALSO phrase

ISO/IEC 1989:202x WD 1.00 describes the ALSO phrase for compiler directive REPLACE. This is currently not implemented in Enterprise Cobol 6.2. ALSO will enable us to use more than one REPLACE statement in Cobol source without overriding the replac...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Enhance IRLM to detect cross-subsystem deadlocks

Today the Internal Resource Lock Manager (IRLM) of IMS is not able to communicate with the IRLM of DB2. This causes cross-subsystem deadlock situations not to be detected and not to be resolved. Because such cross-subsystem deadlocks could not be ...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Make CICS WUI dataset EYUWREP optional

The documentation at https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.5.0/configuring/cpsm/eyuadif.html states that the EYUWREP file "contains the Web User Interface server view and menu definitions". I believe this includes any user groups...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

REXX

Support REXX
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 5 Not under consideration

Add support for message-driven JBP

Currently IMS Java batch programs can't be message-driven. This prevents the modernization of message-driven BMPs and new applications with this processing pattern to be implemented in Java or forces you to using MQ to queue the messages (if MQ is...
about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration

Need the ability to perform tailored actions after CESN/L

When a user signs onto CICS using CESN or CESL, the ability for CICS to invoke a new transaction immediately rather than just a message that their sign on was successful after which they have to clear the screen and invoke their next transaction.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Allow additional custom actions to DWC "More Actions" menu

Currently DWC only allows for one Custom Menu (url) to be displayed in the "More Actions" menu using the twsObjectDoc section of TdwcGlobalSettings.xml . We have a requirement to have more than one Custom Action for jobs/jobstreams to point to mul...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Software analyzer : Documentation explaining code conformity/violations with examples

Some of the existing software analyzer built-in rules are not very comprehensive with examples. It is becoming more difficult to read code violation report and correct themselves by developers. For example built-in rule "Avoid using 88-entries in ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

IDz Host Connection Emulator - allow mapping of Insert key

Users of IDz on macOS have no way to toggle Insert mode using Host Connection Emulator, because Apple does not support the Insert key. There is no Insert key on Apple keyboards, and the operating system even hides the key event from external third...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Not under consideration

RDz: Setting .hce defaults before the file is created

We run RDz using a virtual server that all users start their instances of RDz from. When a user creates a new connection the emulator defaults to use unsecure telnet on port 23 and these settings are saved in the workspace .hce file. We'd like an ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

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