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Add the socket descriptor as a parameter for the HWSAUTH0 exit

Users of our HWSAUTH0 exit routine need a socket-connection-based user authentication to conform to their company rules. To make it possible with HWSAUTH0 exit, we need in the HWSAUTH0 exit parameter list a new parameter where the socket descripto...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager 1 Not under consideration

Allow INITPARMs to be specified on PLT entry; allow > 60 characters

Allow an INITPARM string to be specified on the DFHPLT TYPE=ENTRY card for the program it is to be associated with. This is to accomplish three principal objectives: (1) Place the INITPARM text in the same parmlib member as the associated program ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Request for a new function to control message rescheduling with deadlock case

We need a new function which enable us to cancel message rescheduling in a case of U0777 abend in an IFP region. When a U0777 occurs, an IFP region ALWAYS reschedules the message. Sometimes this specification leads to repeating U0777s if 3 or more...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Make CICS Explorer "Managed Windows" View Scope Behaviour consistent with Regions View

CICS Explorer view Managed Regions shows the CPSM status of defined CICS regions in the CICS Plex with details such as whether connected, CPSM level and which CMAS they are connected to. The context of this view does not always change when selecti...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

COBOL-Program with no goback or Exit Programs

Writing a COBOL program without any GOBACK, EXIT PROGRAM or STOP RUN will produce a runtime error. It's necessary to get a warning by the compiler if none of these "BR14" are written
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

A new rule to RULES(NOLAXPERF)

When indexing into strings, there should be a warning when not using optimal variables for the index variables.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Specify different property groups for test target source and zUnit test case without manually switching

Having the possibility to specify different property groups for test target source and zUnit test case without manually switching.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Large Documents are printed with missing information

We noticed some documents are arriving incomplete to Docpath. These documents have many pages, and each time we try to print them, we are having randomly several pages (never the full document). After checking, we realized that the files .spl requ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

View print job button is not working as expected

The view print job button appears disabled when trying to click it (see image attatched)
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

QoL enhancements for HoD

As a enhancement for the HOD product, we would like to have implemented the following things: Print all selected documents at the same time Flag in a different color the pdfs that has been printed/opened before Auto refresh the document list every...
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

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