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Decision/Branch Level Code Coverage

Currently, line level coverage is the most specific level of code coverage offered. This is comparable to statement coverage on other platforms. However, to really get a more complete indication of the level of coverage achieved by a testing suite...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow dynamic setting of database name and datastore name in IMS DB connectionFactory

Currently the IMS DB connectionFactory is unique to each datastore and database (PSB). So if your zOS Connect server supports five API serviced by IMS DB connections and they use five different PSB as they are application specific then you would n...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS to provide an application setting that indicates the success level of a transaction

Business analytics requires knowing more about a transaction than just the CPU and elapsed time. The only current indicator of success is the abend code, which is too coarse an indicator. Did the transaction complete successfully? To what degree? ...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add warning option when setting a DFSVSMxx LOCKTIME value

Currently when setting LOCKTIME in DFSVSMxx to set a timeout value, the options available for BMPOPT and MSGOPT are to either abend, or return a BD status code to the application. Neither are currently feasible because the application may not be a...
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 28 Not under consideration

Provide a DB2 user thread cancellation process within ITOM for DB2 REORG and Shutdown purposes.

DB2 reorgs on the ITOM tables and indexes can fail if a user - say an operator - that can't be cancelled is using ITOM. Also, the DB2 subsystem cannot be shut down for maintenance. We would like a feature built into the ITOM started task shutdown ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

AD to provide support for REXX

Provide support for REXX at the same level as COBOL and Pl/I.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

User-EQAOPTS should not be able to override systemwide GPFDSN

Settings made by the system programmer in GPFDSN should not be changeable by single users.A possible solution would be to enhance GPFDSN command by 'override' or 'nooverride'Example:EQAXOPT GPFDSN,'GROUP1.COMMON.DTOOL.PREFS',NOOVERRIDE
about 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Enable Super Session Modify command responses to be interrogated by Netview

When we were running ISM we had several automation scripts that required responses to be interrogated to determine if the commands were successful. We attempted to duplicate these scripts for KLS and were unsuccessful. We opened a case with IBM an...
almost 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the CICS design to access SMSVSAM in parallel.

We'd like to propose the following CICS design changes:1) Have a completely separate TCB or a pool of TCBs to process only the QUIESCE and UNQUIESCE SEND and RECEIVE elements. This TCB or pool of TCBs should never be used for OPEN and CLOSE reques...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Associate complete program with include

A developer tries to edit a PL/I include member, which has a complete program associated.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

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