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CEMT TSModel SET command

Ability to do a CEMT SET TSModel to change the Expiry or Prefix.Also same in WUI and CICS Explorer. This would allow to do dynamic change, rather than CEDA ALTER and CEDA Install.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ - Using a "DEFINEd" compilation-variable in source code of a program

Using a "DEFINEd" compilation-variable in the source code of a Cobol program could be interesting: CBL DEFINE (COUNT = 100)>> DEFINE COUNT AS PARAMETER...01 ARRAY. 05 ITEM OCCURS COUNT.... Today, this result can be achieved by a REPLACE dire...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Web Service support for WS-Atomic Transaction

Support is required for Web Service Atomic Transaction, see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.zseries.doc/info/zseries/ae/cjta_wstran.html
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

IDz - Deselection of common routines in 'Program Control Flow'

Hello In the IDz test version 14.2.3.x or 15.0.x, there are multiple flow lines represented for a common routines where ever it is referred through. As a result, program control graphical view becomes unreadable and highly clustered. It's good hav...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Partial import of existing Service Interface

When using z/OS Connect EE as API provider, sometimes multiple programs have a common part in the copybooks that are used. It would be useful if instead of redoing the same modifications for the common part each time, the API toolkit could re-impo...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add support in URIMAP for hostname with underscore

URIMAP resource definitions do not allow for hostname values that contain an underscore character. This makes CICS unable to interact with some remote services, just because of a naming restriction. Also, this behavior seems inconsistent with an u...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Increase TOS Message limit to 512 or 1024 characters

ETOS.EXE has to truncate messages to 255 characters. This limit should be extended to 512 or 1024 characters so that every message sent to a tpf host's console can be captures.
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Not under consideration

ZD&T documentation about scenario where ZD&T Agent changed after deployment

Provide documentation or technote about the scenario where the ZD&T Agent changed or no longer available after image deployment. How to upgrade existing ZD&T target image? How to replace (if possible) the ZD&T agent?
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Planned for future release

ZD&T web server (Enterprise Edition) to show all files located in SFTP Server

Customer would like to have the option inside of ZD&T web server (Enterprise Edition) via GUI to see the list of all files (volumes and dataset) located in SFTP server.
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Planned for future release

COBOL editor should automatically create reference

It could by useful if COBOL editor automatically create reference. Perhaps IDZ could ask the PIC clause (PIC X(10), PIC S9(3) COMP, …) and the section (WORKING, LINKAGE) and add it at the end of this section.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

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