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Generate messages during emergency restart showing indoubt systems that should be restarted.

Please generate a message during emergency restart that shows any related CICS regions or subsystems that must be started to resolve all indoubt UOWS during the emergency restart.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

An increase in the max session limit is needed

We have HOD session sets set up for the Command Center(Operations) with have icons for all the systems within a specific data center, Operations would like to open at least 1 session with each lpar/system in that session set but currently the max ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Not under consideration

Hovering Over Array Variables During a Remote Debug Session Returns the Subscripted Value

While using the Remote Debugger, the hover feature should display the value of the array element referenced by the subscript variable. For example, an array called DATA-CHAR consists of five elements containing the following values in order 'A', '...
about 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

CPSM Tasks - Open TCB

I would like the CPSM services run out of QR TCB. This enhancement will provide parallelism and will reduce CPU Usage and QR ratio would be higher.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

public Compare API for plugin usage

See case TS002883929, currently there is no public IDz API for opening a compare editor in the IDz client while this functionality does already exist(when you select two datasets in the Remote Systems view and select the 'Compare With > Each Ot...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

IMS Explorer - Security improvement

The userid/pswd fields are exposed in cleartext when looking at the network traffic using a trace.This can be a serious security exposure, depending on the business and if the user use the same userid/pswd in production and development environments.
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Propagate unique ID's across entire flow of z/OS Connect

Propagate unique ID's across entire flow of z/OS Connect.. Best approach would be, ZCEE internally generates a REQUESTID for each instance when logging SMF 123 records.. Same ID can be passed back part of RESPONSE through BAQCSTUB parameter for ca...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

DB/DC vs. DCCTL CSA storage comparisons

The usage of resources like CSA is expected to be different between IMS in a DB/DC configuration and IMS in a DCCTL configuration. Analysis proved that some "DB" modules are currently (IMS V14) loaded also in a DCCTL environment even if not requir...
about 8 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE Requester support for z/OS Connect SERVICES

We would like the ability to call z/OS Connect Services from mainframe programs in addition to APIs.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration