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Login integration between Debug Profile Manager and Remote Debug Deamon service, ccaas application (code coverage reporting service)

Current setup requires first login in the ccaas application to basic authentication, before it then internally switches to jwt.Problems:- Unnessary security risk to have multible (unnessary) logins.- Complicates MFA (Multi Factor Authentication" u...
12 days ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow attribute on LIST

Often, I know that a register points to character data or to an array. I would like a way to specify the data type and a repetition count on the LIST command. It would be nice, but not essential, for the syntax to be modelled on DS syntax in HLASM.
12 days ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support debugging specific steps inside a PROC

Given the "Debug as" feature, the debug configuration fails to detect inherited steps when the JCL under test uses a PROC. Only the steps in the main JCL are provided for selection. I suggest to analyse or pre-process the JCL by the debug launch c...
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keywords (/DIS STATUS.), which can result in massive output message for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This affects system operator's operation. This also affects throughput of workloa...
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

RDS (EQARMTD) and zOpenDebug are not currently sysplex-aware, so they can't redirect our debug request, and we cannot always pick up IMS transactions for debug.

We have an issue using the z/OS Debugger in VS Code, due to our setup in Test where we have two LPAR’s in a Sysplex. Since our IMS transactions are automatically placed on either LPAR, we need to be able to pick up the transaction from either LPAR...
10 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Cross debugging

There are some scenarios where the user who is intended to debug some program isn't the one who submits the JCL. Among other situations, this happens when the job is launched from ControlM. In this case, the principal is a service user instead of ...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support Japanese Monospaced Fonts in Headless Code Coverage PDF Reports

When generating PDF reports using the Headless Code Coverage collector with the Japanese locale (-nl ja), the system currently uses a proportional font (such as IBMPlexSansJP). We request that the tool be updated to support a monospaced font for J...
2 months ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add timeout for active and parked debug sessions in IBM Z Open Debug in VS Code

It is common that developers leave active debug sessions open, leaving for lunch or afternoon tea. Even more common that multiple sessions are parked without ever being connected to. It would be VERY helpful if these sessions could timeout. We wou...
about 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Debug a Cobol program (6.3) using LangX side file

With Cobol 6, we cannot debug programs using LANGX side files. We would like to continue using this feature as we were able to do with Cobol 4 programs
over 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Not under consideration