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Possibility to install IDz v17 in z/OSMF mode

So far only IDz EE has a ServerPac package in ShopZ to be installed with z/OSMF, so customer needs to request IDz EE licences as a workaround
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Future consideration

Promotion of Remote Syntax Check

We need a visibility enhancement for the Remote syntax check function in order for the developpers to see it fastly and use it more than what they are currently do.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 5 Future consideration

HOLDDATA for ADF products - Support FIXCAT and ERRSYSMODS reports

Add and update Enhanced HOLDDATA (http://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html) for all ADF FMIDs.Currently, each product must be checked individually: * Explorer for z/OS - http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27047906#311...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 2 Future consideration

special non-IBM Enterprise COBOL statement

Compile of program was successful but using RDZ it got parsing errors
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

Adjust the time for zAware from UTC to local (eastern)

I started by opening PMR 34594 082 000 and was told that I needed to open a RFE. Customer want you to adjust the time in zAware from UTC to local time (eastern)
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 2 Future consideration

Add capabilities to support JES3

There are several larger customers with JES3.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Not under consideration

RFE of formatting support for multi-byte COBOL editor

When I use Developer for System z, the following limitation is written. Windows>Preferences>COBOL>Editor>Formatter Indentation Tab : "Note : Indentation formatting is supported for single bytes character set source encoding only" I'd l...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

Allow to specify a sender email address for zAware

Development confirmed that zAware email feature automatically replaces the sender email address with NO-REPLY. This is a problem for most mail servers as they reject emails without a properly qualified sender email address. Please allow the user t...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Future consideration

zAware vendor key expirations

Change the fixed vendor key expiration date from December 31st to March 31st annually.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Planned for future release

MODIFY SEND command should work for DBCS code pages.

MODIFY SEND command should work for DBCS code pages.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration