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Historical data tables have a unique index.

Historical tables created by Warehouse on DB2 zOS do not have a unique index. Making query performance worse. The idea is to create a unique index, such as a highly accurate writing timestamp, or sequential keys. Or even ensuring that the combina...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Policy based routing for API Requesters

We would like the ability to use policy based routing to direct API Requesters to specific API Connect endpoints. I believe this would involve adding a new valid property for use for API Requesters. For example: EndpointConnectionRefThe ID of the ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS - In SMF performance records, supply the target program in mirror transaction

Senario: Program performs X a DPL to program Y. In the mirror task in the remote region the 1st program is DFHMIRS and it will link to program Y. Unfortunately, program Y is not reported by SMF performance records.My request is to always report th...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

IBM Migration Utility to generate other Languages

IMU currently ingests Easytrieve Plus or Easytrieve Class programs and generates IBM Enterprise COBOL. Customer would like to see IMU generate Java.
10 months ago in IBM Migration Utility for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

AD - v6.0.1 - CCS project monitor field doesn't work in the sorted order of time duration (Eg; build progress)

In AD version v6.0.1 after build or post build processes there is no facility to display long time consuming build progress projects from the CCS admin console. In the top right corner there is "status field" that only filters status alone that do...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

CALLEXIT for checking Call Parameter Usage

It would be good to have a kind of "Call-Exit", which is called every time the compiler see a CALL Subroutine, but also "Procedure Division" or ENTRY-Statement.So we could build a dictionary for all Calls, knowing which program calls which subprog...
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

IMS catalog API (DFS3CATQ) GSAM support

There is a restriction that GSAM ACB or DBD control blocks cannot be retrieved from the IMS catalog by using the GET request of the IMS catalog API. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ims/15.4.0?topic=dfs3catq-get-request-get-ims-catalog-api The cust...
10 months ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Planned for future release

Echo ctg.ini to STDOUT as is STDENV and Policy Rule data

For historical purposes of prior executions of the CTG, Echo ctg.ini to STDOUT as is STDENV and Policy Rule data. If a problem pops up, it would be good to have the ctg.ini file archived to STDOUT, along with all the other gateway configuration pa...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

RDz - Editors Compare results sharing and save

In RDz Editors , Compare is much better than what we have had on the Host systems SUPERC or File Manager compare , especially for the source code comparisons. We would like to have the ability to save the comparison results to a file, which we cou...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

ZSDEA modifications to support FENCED OFF file pool support

ZSDEA Modifications - Allow file pool "FENCING OFF" or the ability to de-activate a range of ordinals without requiring RAMFIL DE-ACTIVATION updates to the FACE TABLE. IBM's RAMFIL parameter is used to indicate if a pool segment is going to be dea...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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