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HSBC UK - VTP Recording and/or Replay Filter Enhancement

VTP RFE: Can VTP limit the recording to only the application-owned modules necessary for the test scope using either include or exclude filter? Then at REPLAY, VTP only executes the selected application-ownedprograms that have been recorded and it...
almost 3 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z 1 Future consideration

Increase FIELD SPECIFICATION LIMIT to handle expanded DBDs from IMS Explorer. 1000 fields is not enough.

Please increase FIELD SPECIFICATION LIMIT to handle expanded DBDs from IMS Explorer. 1000 fields is not enough. How about 9999? Our customers are VERY interested in IMS 13 & its .NET benefits. We need to be able to add this DBD & a number ...
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 3 Is a defect

New Event Processing - System Event - Terminal monitoring

EP System Event for Terminals
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Containerization of HATS projects

System: HATSActor: Official support for HATS containers HATS is a commonly used product that provides Host Access modernization. HATS projects are normally web applications that are deployed to an application server and accessed over a browser. De...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

Enhance masking options for dataset selection

When defining a dataset mask in the history dialog the only generic allowed is a trailing *. CTC should support *, ** and % where any dataset mask can be defined for history and clone processing.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Asktime should set a properly formatted COMP-3 in EIBTIME

CICS manual states that ASKTIME function cannot be used with NUMPROC(PFD) compiler option.This is because ASKTIME sets a F as final byte in signed EIBTIME, instead of a correct C. PMR and RFE to the CICS team, to get a fix for this are rejected, a...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Not under consideration

Additional payload logging management capability - offload / archiving

The customer uses payload logging function in zCEE, however, the current fs logging interceptor only supports to rollover to a new file when hitting the size or duration limit. The customer suggested zCEE provide additional functionality in the pr...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration

Use same password for several z/OS systems in view "Remote System"

Use same password for several z/OS systems in view "Remote System".
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Not under consideration

XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single string

XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single stringXML-TEXT content is 104069, but its separating the text like 64909 and 39160 chars chunks rather than a single string text. we tried Enterprise COBOL 4.2 & 6.2 no difference s...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

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