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Manipulate virt 3390 based datasets

Update the virtual 3390s more easily while the emulator is *not* running - that is, lift some of the restrictions/limitations imposed by pdsUtil. These specially formatted Linux files that are “virtual 3390s” are requested to have these capabiliti...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Removing application group entry in CP

When adding a Application Group to CP and you regret (for some reason) and want to cancel your way back, an entry is left in CP preventing to add the Application Group again using same Input Arrival values. Cancel during add, should mean cancel (a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Allow Association data to pass named areas to allow multiple applications to use association data.

This is a repeat of the earlier RFE 67116. The request is to allow a named area of storage, potentially like a container or an area associated with a program or exit, to flow along with the task association data. The data should be able to be set ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

IBM Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools - Health Center under AQUA 3.3

We provide a consolidated eclipse environment for our mainframe Tools such as MQ, zOS, CICS explorer, Debug tools, Data Studio and with AUQA 3.3 , tool "BM Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools - Health Center" is not available.
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Improve IEBCOPY performance for PDS to PDS copies

The IBM Software Migration Project Office has customer migrations from CA PDSMAN to IBM products. The performance of IEBCOPY is critical for such migrations.
over 2 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

Integrate HA DSSPOLICY with Client IP Filtering

In the past we had created a user exit to filter the IP addresses of clients connecting to ctg. In the configuration file this exit was pointed to by the parameter: CICSRequestExit. Now we need to turn on high availability but the DSSPolicy parame...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Option to select levels other than 01 as the service interface

z/OS Connect API Toolkit~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~When importing Service copybooks with multiple data structures, provide support for structures that start at levels higher than 01. Example:We have copybooks containing multiple data structures which, wit...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

DFHSC2LS CICS XML Assistant - recognize min/max lengths specified in XSD <pattern> elements

Requesting DFHSC2LS enhancement to recognize min/max lengths specified in XSD <pattern> elements to reduce COBOL copybook lengths. DFHSC2LS does not recognize min/max length specified in XSD <pattern> elements and generates COBOL copyb...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Invoke COBOL preprocessor extension from another plugin

It should be possible to invoke the preprocessor from a plugin. At the moment you have to select "source - preprocessor - identify with preprocessor" from the editor. This option should be available from a plugin.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

Create a specific file for parser error in Software Analyzer

Currently in Software Analyzer, when you analyze an entire workspace made of several programs, all the cobol parser errors are retrieved in the .log in the workspace without any possibility to oriented those result in a specific file.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

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