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Enterprise Cobol V6 - Suppress conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options

The conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options could be resolved by implicitly introducing a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE STATIC" before "EXEC CICS" and a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE" after the "END-EXEC" clause. ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Support Applicationgroups in LTP

Description:It should be possible to add or delete complete application groups in the LTP. We need the same support for application groups in LTP as in CP (Add Group / Delete Group) Use case:Currently I can only add or delete a single occurrence i...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Time-Dependency-Flag in LTP

So it should be possible to display and change the time dependency flag for an operation in LTP. A single letter field with Y/N that can be changed in addition to the operation IA that could already be modified in the LTP. Use case:When we want to...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Modify the workstation of operations in the LTP

We want to have the option to modify the workstation when adding an application into the LTP. So we can use the same methods in LTP as in CP. Use case:Very often we get requests like: 1. Plan the application X for date Y. Only the jobs 10 to 12 sh...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

SSL refresh command for CICS Liberty

When a new cert is added to the keyring, we have to manually cycle the jvms for each of our cics regions. We need a way to either automatically update the cert cache for the liberty jvms or run a CICS command to refresh the jvm cert cache.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Eliminate the Usage of Passwords for System Tasks

Passwords for System Tasks is not allowed at the Shop. The passwords for the Cognos access and for the Forecasting feature need to be eliminated.
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cloud Agnostic Interface

In order to support multiple cloud providers, define a pluggable interface or an adaptor interface that will be able to accommodate a few different major cloud providers, such as * Google compute engines * Amazon Some cloud providers support the a...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

RBAC for components & images

Provide read access right to individual images/components so only selected individuals/groups or all users have access to image.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

VsamDB support by CICS on z/OS

I am interested in the VsamDB functionality allowing to store documents in bson / json format. This function is already available in zos v2.4. I want to use it from a CICS cobol or assembler program. How soon can this function be supported by CICS?
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Record Generator not generating DAA-compliant code

Record Generator 3.0.1 does not generate code that would take advantage of the Data Access Accelerator mechanism, even though DAA is true and available to the CobolDatatypeFactory, it generates BigDecimal members. A parameter to control the behavi...
over 4 years ago in Record Generator for Java 5 Future consideration