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(TPFUG/Visa) Need to remediate the overhead of special linkage libraries being in loadsets

Frequently Entered Program (FEP) support provides the means to alleviate the cost of having a program in a loadset that is entered many times by the same ECB. The FEP support allows an ECB to determine the version it should use by locking the base...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Service Project Editor Enhancement

When there is a change to the mainframe CICS program’s commarea structure, the only way to get the changes in, is to Import the entire changed structure and do all the Interface mappings all over again! This potentially causes issues if we are not...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Binary Literal Support in IMS JDBC V14 Driver

We Need IMS JDBC V14 driver to support BINARY Literal when we try to run SQL using WHERE clause that has LOW values(Binary Fields).
about 7 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Delivered

Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls

Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls

IDz 14.1.0 cannot detect the lock owner information across different systems in a sysplex

IDz 14.1.0 cannot detect the lock owner information across different systems in a sysplex
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 3 Delivered

SMU - add INGRUN function

The INGRUN function should be part of SMU, so that the different RUNMODES can be selected.
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Delivered

Allow use of file system logger and user-implemented interceptors with API Requesters.

Allow the use of both file system logger and user-implemented interceptors with API Requesters. As with the API and Service Implementations, we would like to see both Global and Requestor-Specific specification capabilities.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Expand Column Width of table entries

Some views like the "Remote Monitor" View e.g. for "my jobs" consist of table columns. When a developer changes the column width and then closes and reopens the view, the column widths earlier are no longer used. The column width goes to a default...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 7 Delivered

New UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFE 4122

New UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFE 4122 (125715) Please provide a new UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFC 4122. To be able to generate version 4 and 5 in the same program we suggest the following...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

z/OS Connect: From a Cobol copybook, expose Cobol variables as JSON fields of type Boolean - define and map type Boolean

z/OS Connect: expose Cobol variables as JSON fields of type Boolean. Starting from a Cobol copybook, provide means (from a command line or from the tooling, service or API), to define JSON instance fields (values) of type Boolean, and map them to ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered