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Automatic rename of '*' fields when compiling with TEST() option

From the Enterprise PL/I Programming Guide: Any variable declared with an * for its name will not be visible when using DebugTool. Additionally, if an * is used as the name of a parent structure or substructure, then all of its children will also ...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

TXSeries supports DB2 pureScale on Linux

TXSeries supports DB2 pureScale for AIX platform, but not for Linux.TXSeries for Linux also should support DB2 pureScale for customres who requires high reliability and high performance for mission critical system.
almost 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way to monitor expiration dates of SSL peer certificates.

With Network compliance display (ZDCOM), we have a good tool to monitor expiration dates of local z/TPF certificates. But there are a large number of remote peer certificates for which we have no tool to monitor their expiration dates. Impact of e...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Prevent un-necessary Paging Delays when 'freed' CICS storage is reused.

CICS needs to be able to eliminate or reduce the overhead of paging that occurs for pages of private virtual storage that have been released (i.e. EXEC CICS FREEMAINed) to the CICS Storage Manager. Especially costly are Page-Ins from Page Datasets...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

REDEFINES Behavior: Requirement to support multiple redefinitions on input (request)

We are requesting support of JSON draft 4 schema within z/OS Connect, with "anyOf" & "oneOf" as it applies to REDEFINES support in IMS and CICS. Requirement: We have a requirement to support multiple redefinitions on input (request). The attac...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Future consideration

OTMA Front-End Switch

Our IMS client has following business requirement : DataPower ==> ICON8 ==> IMS A ==> ICON3 ==> IMS B ==> ICON3 ==> IMS A ==> ICON8 ==> DataPower We need the IMS front-end switch function so that the send-receive call from ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CTC Active Tasks display

When monitoring active tasks under CTC the display shows total Blocks/Bytes sent and based on elapsed time Blocks/Bytes Per Second. Watching a typical transfer its common to observe the total columns to cycle through periods of increment and pause...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

HATS User List -- User selection enhancement

We are experiencing an issue with our connect macro, our connect macro made use of a user list If by mistake any of the IDs on the user list has a typo, that connection fails to be established which in turn causes that connection to never end and ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

FA Eclipse: Divide Storage Areas into Working-Storage and Linkage

Under Event details --> Event 1/2/3/... there is an item called "Storage Areas" - this should be divided for COBOL into Working-Storage and Linkage. This division should be shown in the outline view as well.
about 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Basic authentication for CICS as a web service requester

For CICS as a web service requester with basic authentication defined in URIMAP, we developed a Global exit to activate at exit point XWBAUTH and supply the userID and password through a sequential file set-up and accessible by security team.Since...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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