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Improve ability to define structures with power-of-2 size

When writing assembler code, it is often desirable or even necessary to define a structure with a length that is an integral power of 2. Reasons for such might be to avoid crossing a cache-line boundary; to be able to allocate an array of structur...
almost 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

Allow for SFTP and Tectia server

Tectia Server in IBM Z/OS use file transfer to MVS dataset (FTADV – File Transfer Advice String) using SFTP protocol in the Mainframe. HOD Dev team investigated the code including on the mainframe end. After discussion with the Development manager...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

Produce message for C:D waiting excessive amont of time for dataset allocation request

All Connect:Direct copy step will fail when it is waiting for a dataset allocation request to complete. This mostly will happen if dataset is migrated or is resided on tape. Produce a message for a specific process/dataset if allocation request ha...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

AD Build Client settings to connect with DB2 using SSL/TLS Certificate

Client needs AD to support a secure connection with the DB2 database using a certificate/key file. Client also requires a centralized certificate configuration
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Export in CSV of Control-M components

It is not possible to export the Control-M plan in CSV or Excel format Our need is to have two possible exports (CSV or Excel), this can be on the same file with two tabs:- Downstream links with the list of Jobs and their successors- Upstream link...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Programmatic prerequisite/configuration checker for Application Discovery Server machines

Paraphrasing colleague Roberto C after a recent issue where a WinSrv 2012 R2 machine didn't have certain Windows patches and didn't have Visual C++ components that were apparently required by Application Discovery Build's installation program for ...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer view "CMAS Details" needs extending

CICS Explorer view "CMAS Details" only shows a single CMAS based on which one is selected in the CMAS Explorer view. Having to select each CMAS in turn to view or perform actions against is time consuming.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Allow functions to be applied to the Request and Response mappings of APIs

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include functions. I have included some examples below in the use case section, but the mapping capability within API Toolkit should ideally be aligned to that provided by API C...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Cobol - New Reserved Words to reduce hard coding

My suggestion is Cobol should have two new reserved words containing the currently executing Section / Paragraph name i.e. CURRENT-SECTION / CURRENT-PARAGRAPH (both would have an implicit picture clause X(30). Typically this would be useful in err...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Enabling the IBM LinuxONE and IBM Power 10 ( or later ) C/C++ Compilers to integrate with Intel oneAPI

Intel oneAPI is an open, cross-architecture programming model that frees developers to use a single code base across multiple architectures. The result is accelerated compute without vendor lock-in. for more information : https://www.intel.com/con...
over 1 year ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 5 Not under consideration