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Allow INITPARMs to be specified on PLT entry; allow > 60 characters

Allow an INITPARM string to be specified on the DFHPLT TYPE=ENTRY card for the program it is to be associated with. This is to accomplish three principal objectives: (1) Place the INITPARM text in the same parmlib member as the associated program ...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

IMS Restart Light as an FDBR replacement

Provide an option to do an IMS Restart Light (comparable to a DB2 restart light) which only closes the Online Log Dataset (OLDS) , does Backout for any inflight PSB, and releases corresponding IRLM locks. IMS Control region should then shutdown im...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 1 Not under consideration

DFHFCT BDAM supported as RDO defined

Provide support for DFHFCT BDAM files to be supported in RDO,
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

"CA-7 Job Triggering Flow" Show with SCHID =000

Requirement:Allow AD to show CA-7 Job Trigger Flows for SCHID=000 Issue:Currently AD does not allow this.A case was raised and closed with IBM L3 support responding with “By design, schedule 000 is not available for selection, as it is not a speci...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Schedule information missing for Time triggered jobs in "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow"

In "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow" chart, the time trigger schedule information for jobs in CA7. please provide this feature as time trigger schedule is a key capability widely used in batch schedule. There was a RFE 146935 raised earlier and there wer...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

31Char long COBOL words (current 30)

COBOL words (variable names...) can only be 30 characters.In ISO Standard it is limited to 31 bytes.Please enlarge the allowed length of such names.
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

"bypass generate processor" check box on the edit/retrieve SCM endevor panel is irrelevant.

when editing or retrieving an element from endevor SCM. in the EDIT/RETRIVE pannel one of the options is :"bypass generate processor" . this check box is irrelevant. since when editing no generation should be performed. so it has to be checked wit...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Faster navigate to main nodes (like MVS, z/OS UNIX files, JES)

The tree in the remote systems view can get very big very fast if I have many entries in the main nodes (like MVS, z/OS UNIX files, JES ...). This means I may have to scroll a long time to get to a main node. I can use some key combinations like c...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Display of the number of results determined in a usage analysis

Currently, the number of results found is not displayed in a usage analysis. The number can only be determined by manual counting. Especially when a usage analysis is started over several AD projects, all AD projects must first be opened in the tr...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Provide ability to decrypt encrypted query/path parameters in a GET request

The API consumer need to pass a client card / credit card number to retrieve account information such as account balance or mortgage information with a GET method. Even though the request URL is protected in transport layer with TLS/SSL, the URL c...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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