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Option to turn off checkpointing for GSAM files

Currently, IMS sets the DS1CPOIT flag in the Format-1 DSCB for all GSAM files used by an IMS program, such as a BMP. This flag is left on regardless of whether the program terminates normally or not, leading to many thousands of checkpoint files l...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Support Cobol Report Writer syntax in RDz

Want RDz to support Cobol Report Writer syntax parsing
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Disposer de filtre sur les entités de design suite à analyse d'impact

Les r?f?rences d'usage sur les mod?les Ecran, Programme ne sont pas pr?cises et ne permettent pas de trouver facilement l'usage. Solution possible, disposer d'un filtre, solution ?voqu?e par V.LODE sur les entit?s de design . Pour les fichiers cob...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Modify commarea of DYP to contain Invoking program

What the customer is trying to achieve, making routing decisions inside the routing program based on the name of the program that initiated the START request, seems like a perfectly reasonably and valid thing to wantto do. Unfortunately it is not ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Include RSE certificates stored in keystore as part of Push to Client support

Need a solution to deploy CA certificates for SSL Connections so that every individual RDz user does not have to go out and reconfigure the Host Emulation connection in order to use the Secured Connection. The TN3270S certificate should be include...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

SysPlex/CICSPlex compliance FORCE environment mode

Problem: No CICS simple flag/option in SIT and compiler to force SysPlex/CICSPlex compliance? With the general commoditisation of programmers worldwide skills are dropping or being concentrated into small pools. Customer sites are required to put ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

DTCN profile repository selection in Debug Tool

in a MRO environment - if the VSAM file owning region is not up and running when the other regions referencing remote defined file starting up than it seems if TSQ was defined as repository DT will use the TSQ as a profile repository but it will n...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

RDz LPEX Editor support hover copybook information

Hover copybook information only support by Cobol Editor, but not LPEX editor.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz CARMA support long file name in Endevor

RDz does not yet have support for CA Endevor long names, it can now only support up to 10 characters. However Endevor allow long file name since v7 in 2005. All the existing long file name element in Endevor cannot be interface with CARMA now.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

CDATA-section support when using webservices.

Sending binary data through a webservice is not possible. The webservice will crash. Also, our users regularly seem to manage to enter illegal characters which after being sent or received by a webservice will make the webservice crash. Adding the...
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Planned for future release

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