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    IMS Catalog utility FABXCATM has no exclude option during DECODE IMS DBD or PSB Source

    FABXCATM is only allow wild card option to DECODE DBD and PSB from IMS catalog and cannot exclude specific member level option. Please add this new function.
    16 days ago in IMS Library Integrity Utilities for z/OS  / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Replace missing icon with new icon for cross application projects

    Replace missing icon on the IDZ window with new icon when object is in the cross application list. this will help with looking for the correct missing object in a project.
    about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 0 Under review

    Add a summary report for projects in IDZ

    On the IDZ project list window add a summary report for the project selected. must have the following information number per object type total number of missing objects per type excluding the cross application objects number per cross application ...
    about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 1 Not under consideration

    Collecting Db2 Integrated Synchronization counters in IZDS

    IBM Z Decision Support currently does not collect Db2 Integrated Synchronization IFCID 2 counters. In Db2 component table DB2_IDAA_STAT_S_H/D there is column REPLICATION_CPU, but is only populated with data for CDC replication. Since we have migra...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

    Add support for UTF-8 in buildclient

    When cloning sources from git, they come as UTF-8 encoding. Build client requires source code in cp1252. It would be good to add support for utf-8 for sources, to avoid creating workarounds during git clones
    6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 0 Future consideration

    Allow LIST RECORD consumption to be drifted to ZIIP processors.

    Now, IZDS and IZPCA allow the derivation of a COLLECT to ZIIP, but it is not possible to do the same with a LIST RECORD.It would be good to study the possibility of adapting the LIST RECORD as well.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

    zIIP usage of CICS transactions should be in the CICS component of TDS

    For accounting reasons we need to know, how much time was used on a CP and on a special processor (zIIP) per CICS transaction. Cics Performance monitor shows this numbers by using the SMF 110 records USRCPUT and CPUTONCP respectively OFFLCPUT. TDS...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

    Support SMF123 subtype 2 V2 record layout

    IBM z/OS Connect has recently improved their SMF123 records. We need IZDS to support their new record layouts. zOS Connect recently improved SMF details for API Requesters. SMF123-subtype 2-V2 is an additional new record layout. Here is a link to ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

    Add new fields or change data type of fields that are in STCKE format to something more consumable

    Fields TIME_ZC_ENTRY, TIME_ZC_EXIT, TIME_SOR_SENT, TIME_SOR_RECV were recently added to the ZDS tables for SMF record type 123 (PTF UI82260). The STCKE (CHAR(16)) format is difficult to work with and convert to a GMT or local time in Db2 queries. ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

    allow STCKE columns on table MVS_ZCONNECT_T to be pulled as a timestamp using SQL

    These columns on table MVS_ZCONNECT_T are not usable, because they cannot be selected as a readable value using DB2 mainframe SQL. TIME_ZC_ENTRY_E TIME_ZC_EXIT_E TIME_SOR_SENT_E TIME_SOR_RECV_E I was asked to submit a RFE for this, but I did find ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

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