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DFHFCT BDAM supported as RDO defined

Provide support for DFHFCT BDAM files to be supported in RDO,
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Missing CICS transactions

There were some transactions which were not getting reflected in ADDI so we contacted UIBM team for the same and they have provided below response.Please find bellow L3 conclusions:- I have started with transaction XF54 that is mapped with program...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Assembly Listing Headers - Four lines of USINGs information is not enough

Currently, the page headers area for Assembly listings is limited to 8 lines: title line, page number, column headers and... from two to four lines of active USINGs information. I use named USINGs a LOT! So much so, that I frequently blow through ...
over 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

Wand user in case no CLOSE statements in CBL program

ZUnit test failure due to dataset compare issue with missing CLOSE statement. So to summarize the issue, test case that creates non text datasets (aka with packed decimal fields) fail as the ZUnit compare can’t seem to recognize the datasets are t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Provide new ADCD RSU (PTFs) monthly maintenance

ADCD provided with ZPDT (for partners) has RSU maintenance (i think a monthly maintenance). The installation of this maintenance is responsibility of the customer. The ADCD provided with ZDT is different to the ADCD provided with ZPDT, but i think...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

HOD toolkit integration with EHLLAPI

Need to enable EHLLAPI property in TOOLKIT which will help to integrate mainframe applications with Pega software Automation tool - Robotic Desktop Automation. As per HOD development team, this feature is not present in existing product. Hence rai...
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

a new command if you have a address that is returned from a exec cics getmain it will be nice to able to ask CICS the size of the getmained area

if you are using getmain shared from one program and you get the address passed to a another program it will be nice if there was a command where you can ask cics storage manager how long the getmained area is from program number 2. cics do know i...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

COBOL Level 88 Occurances

If a level 88 COBOL variable is selected in the editor, the Occurrences functionality does not extend to the data element declared with the level 88.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Possibility to import data in subsets

Subsets are a powerfull option to be able to build parts of your system. I can make subsets in various ways, but what I would like to have is the possibility to import data from a .csv file. I can export a subset to a .csv and edit it in excel, bu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Create new web socket timeout attribute

Like to request a new web socket timeout attribute separate from the DTIMEOUT element. As described in a recent PMR from IBM the DTIMEOUT is designed to release dead locks from other resources. It spends a lot of time issuing automatic retries and...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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