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DL/I Call Resource Governor

IMS should support a resource governor facility which can abort an inflight DL/I call after a certain amount of CPU, I/O, or elapsed time. The abort should abend the UR. This will help prevent situations where a problematic long running DL/I call ...
about 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

Entreprise COBOL V6+ - IGYOS4081-U when MDECK(NOCOMPILE) + SQL options and no valid DBRMLIB

When compiling with MDECK(NOCOMPILE) and SQL options to resolve COPY and EXEC SQL INCLUDE, the compiler raises an IGYOS4081-U error if the DBRMLIB ddname is not declared, or if file associated with the DBRMLIB ddname does'nt have a valid format. T...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Allow data from header to be appended to a policy rule

At the moment, you can override some property fields in the service archive with data you specify in the header, or the value in the header with a hard-coded value that is set in the policy file. There is no middle ground functionality to be able ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

SIT parameters in a table view

The ability to see system initialization parameters in a table view for the entire plex, rather than per region.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Newer software support releases for HATS

HATS 9.7 is currently not supported on Windows 2019, only 2016 - this is classed as end of life for Microsoft. There have also been reliability issues with the OS, so it would be better to support this on Windows 2019. Similarly, HATS has not been...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

allowing sorting of members in MVS DataSets

Sorting members in DataSets is very useful - for example sorting by change date to see recently changed members. The current state makes navigation a lot more difficult.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Request IDz Editor to support(edit) SO/SI only(no DBCS) character in file.

When an z/OS memberinclude SI/SO only fieald, IDz Editor open read only mode. There'are many customer's case that SO/SI only(no DBCS) character exists. If IDz editor's Operability is same as ISPF editor,IDz will very useful many customers.(editabl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

DFSYDT suffix to be independant of the IMS Nucleus Suffix

We run multiple IMS environments on single LPAR's. Each IMS Environment has the same IMS Nucleus Suffix. We require different DFSYDT members for each environment as the descriptors defined for each environment are unique per IMS environment. We re...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

XMLCHAR Builtin function to support DBCS

Enhance XMLCHAR PL/I built-in function, to support the DBCS characters. Today it supports only Single byte Alphanumeric, numeric, decimals and String values.
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 6 Not under consideration

COBOL-JAVA interoperability via JNI: use DirectByteBuffers and avoid copiyng data between COBOL workarea and Java byte array

The biggest hit we expect from DBB is that memory does not need to be copied between COBOL workarea and Java byte array Detail are described in the attached file
about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration