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Change the displays commands for the server from Modify to Display

The users that can execute displays commands are going to be able to see details of the RSED started task so metrics could be easily taken from the product without the necessity of a person with a higher power like modify commands in z/OS. These a...
2 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer Submitted

Add some coloring background to COBOL editor

Some users asked to add some coloring into the background when opening a COBOL program when using the COBOL editor, like the isCOBOL eclipse editor (see attached screenshot). For example, for the column 1 to 6, it will be gray and green starting c...
2 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Submitted

Have a table showing all variables not used in a program

Some of our developers ask for the possibility of adding an array or a list that would contain all the variables not used in a program. This would make it possible to know exactly what is not currently being used in a program and to be able to mor...
4 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown Submitted

Ability to search for a character in a specific column

Some of our developers ask for the possibility of having an easy method to search for a character in a specific column with Ctrl F and possibly make a Replace all only in a single column. The second one is useful in some language such as COBOL whe...
4 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Submitted

zCDP COBOL API to be executed in CICS not just in batch

Currently COBOL API in zCDP only works when executed in batch but in our environment, it is not the preferred way. Application team are currently doing this via CICS (EXEC CICS PROGRAM(<module>) and Ironstream product module is used for that...
10 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Submitted

AI-Powered Cross-Workload Dependency and Business Impact Analysis for IBM Z Decision Support

I propose adding an AI-Powered Cross-Workload Dependency and Business Impact Analysis capability to IBM Z Decision Support to help organizations gain deeper visibility into relationships between IBM Z workloads, applications, system resources, and...
about 7 hours ago in IBM Z Decision Support Submitted

Implement missing eclipse plugin features in VSCode plugin

Today APA VSCode provides only PDF format report, which is sometimes hard to follow from user perspective. Implement similar interactive gui like report like Eclipse plugin has.
about 8 hours ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS Submitted

Implement functionalities in VSCode extension

Implement missing functionalities as File Manager eclipse plugin has in VSCode, ex: Copy File Load module info Export to excel by copy
about 8 hours ago in File Manager for z/OS Submitted

Allow High Performance Image Copy to use the IMS Catalog Staging Directory

Issue: The inability for HPIC to utilize the staging directory is costing us up to 45 minutes of additional outage time. Scenario: With BMC, when we added new areas to the end of a sequential database, we were able to perform the following tasks p...
about 23 hours ago in IMS High Performance Image Copy for z/OS  / Product functionality Submitted

Enhance IMS HP Image Copy by expanding history reporting capabilities

TSYS would like IBM to consider updating the IMS HP Image Copy utility by capturing additional history data at run time. We hope that additional functionality will be added to the utility that would allow it to produce the 200-byte history records...
1 day ago in IMS High Performance Image Copy for z/OS  / Product functionality Submitted

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