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New method IPropertyGroupContainer.addPropertyGroup(IPropertyGroup)

As a developer of a plugin for IDz within my organization, I would like to have a method that allows me to add an instance of IPropertyGroup to a container. This method should be similar to the existing methods: - [createPropertyGroup(java.lang.St...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Planned for future release

Ability to Make the New DFHCE3549 Logon Message Format Optional in CICS TS 6.2

We request the introduction of an optional parameter enabling: Reverting to the previous (short) format of the DFHCE3549 message, Or selecting between the new and the old format, Or using a backward‑compatible message without the additional inform...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Planned for future release

Hide the "one-click" link that assigns the obsolete LPEX editor to 4 extensions in IDz "Preferences"

Like many of your customers, we have taken note of the fact that LPEX is no longer a maintained editor : we have worked hard to assign as many different types and extensions as possible to other more suitable (and maintained) editors. However, we ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Planned for future release

HACPEE support on Openshift

We need HACPEE support on Openshift and images available on Openshift catalog
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software Planned for future release

Store hyperswap information in SA tables

History of planned and unplanned hyperswaps
11 months ago in GDPS Planned for future release

Save environment information -such as IPLINFO- when obtaining an LCP CAPTURE

When GDPS/LCP makes a capture, no information is obtained from the environment that is running at that moment. If captures last for a long enough time, LOADAddr and LOADparms might have changed, and we may be IPLing that system in a Vault environm...
9 months ago in GDPS Planned for future release

GDPS LCP Virtual volume threshold change

We have a SGC setup in my environment where as i monitor the Virtual volume capacity manually and expand when it reach 60 to 70%. One day i missed to expand for 2days and it full and we lost couple of SGC's. When i investigated about the threshold...
10 months ago in GDPS Planned for future release

Progress Feedback for GDPS Script Verification

Currently, when a GDPS script is initiated, there is no feedback provided to the initiator during verification, leading to uncertainty about whether the process is underway. This lack of feedback can cause confusion and unnecessary actions by oper...
about 1 year ago in GDPS Planned for future release

COBOL support for reqular expressions

COBOL 6.4: The IF, INSPECT, and UNSTRING verbs, for example, could well benefit from supporting regular expressions, thus increasing the power and flexibility of the COBOL language. Consider the case of finding a phone number in an address line. S...
about 1 month ago in COBOL Compilers Planned for future release

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS Planned for future release