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Enhancement of Web Service Assistant for Enterprise PLI

When generating wsdl/wsbind files with the Webservice Assistant DFHLS2WS for all of our business services written in PL/I, we receive the message DFHPI9565E. DFHPI9565E: ALIGNED and UNALIGNED keywords are not supported for an entire structure. Thi...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Add a "conditional record hold" function that allows the coder to specify the maximum number of waiters for this record.

In an effort to avoid record hold bottlenecks, rather than blindly issue a FIWHC (which can result in a lengthy wait queue), would it be a better idea to invent a conditional FIWHC equivalent that would allow the programmer to specify the maximum ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

installation of AD should check for java 8 64bit

Customer installs AD 6.0 and has not pre-installed correct mode of Java 8 (it is not 64bit) ... the installation script should detect this and halt installation
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CETR PF5 SET TRANSACTION TRACING(cvda) - Transactions defined in bundles should behave consistently and CETR not abend AEIP

I think a good enhancement (thats doesn't need any recovery over cics restarts) would be to allow SET TRANSACTION TRACING(cvda) for transactions defined from bundles Currently INVREQ resp2 300 is issued whilst using CETR to change the tracing leve...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

Giving clues to RDz user on parser Cobol disabling

Cobol Editor syntax features are disabled when Cobol parser enounters major errors in edited code. This behaviour is inidcated by a cross added to the icon toolbox. Then user's job consists in solving each blocking error wich can be quite long and...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Requester Endpoint not in server.xml

At the current level of zos/Connect v3 you have to set the endpoint url in server.xml. This is the worst choise to place it. Why? 1) Security reason: Modifikation of server.xml. If you use static zos/connect instances (not zospt) the chance is ver...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enhance INITCHECK(STRICT) for different types of used-before-set warnings

Given:INITCHECK(LAX) will issue IGYCB7311-W when a data item is completely uninitialized on all logic paths leading to that statement. INITCHECK(STRICT) will issue IGYCB7311-W when a data item is uninitialized on any logic paths leading to that st...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Unable to pass headers for OAUTH2 apiRequester

Customer has an api requestor that is configured to use oauth2 but the JWT provider requires a scope parm and a http header Client-Application be sent. Looking to do this in the server.xml.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 5 Future consideration

Support DFHAP1900 messages at PLT time

The SPI audit message DFHAP1900 is currently not supported until after CICS startup is complete (when the DFHSI1517 Control is being given to CICS message is written). Consequently, SPI commands issued by startup PLT programs (running under the CP...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration