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Menu manager migration

IDz should support a smooth migration of menu manager to higher IDz version.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Raise more error details to calling client

When an error occurs in a service in CICS, an ABEND ASRA for instance, it would be very helpful if the description of the error was raised up in the detail field up to the API calling client. For instance, instead of of receiving just ""errorMessa...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - >>NOP for >>EVALUATE directive

In addition to our RFE 145885, we suggest the provision of a directive that does no action to be associated with a >>WHEN condition in a >>EVALUATE directive. It could be a >>NOP or >>CONTINUE directive. It is sometimes eas...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Java CICS debugging requires a dedicated JVM

Debugging a JCICS application requires a dedicated JVM. This means that a JVMSERVER cannot be shared by multiple developpers and requires as many JVMSERVERs as developpers/environments.. We would like to be able to share the same JVMSERVER between...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

The function to import a test file as a stub is not available for local projects.

The function to import a test file (local or remote) as a stub is not available for local projects.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Future consideration

zHSC needs Package Option to not Lock Socket on zHSC Send and not Correlate zHSC Reply

z/TPF High Speed Connector (zHSC) needs API Options that do not Lock the TCP/IP Socket that the zHSC Message is being sent on as well as not expect a zHSC Reply on that socket that needs to be Correlated.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Modernize Exception Handling in EXEC CICS API

While learning CICS programming with Cobol, programmers with background in Java or other newer programming languages find fault with the current exception handling in CICS. Although CICS offers a broad range of techniques to cope with exceptions i...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Expose CPSM TDQGBL resource table through the CICS GraphQL API.

I would like to extract global transient data statistics from the CPSM TDQGBL resource table using the GraphQL API. In the past I have extracted these statistics using the CMCI API to query the CICSGlobalTDQueueStatistics resource. Having looked a...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE.

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE. Give the option of using the embedded version OR the client version of the runtime. Currently z/OS Connect comes with an embedded Liberty runtime which is located away fro...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

PL/I parser support for MACROs

PL/I parser issues warnings in the editor if there are MACROs within the INCLUDEs
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration