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Customer requests additional argument that will tell the scoring server to clean up the environment prior to starting it

There are instances when customers have to terminate a non-responsive scoring instance using a kill -9 which results in no environment clean up as a result of the forceful shutdown of the MLz scoring server. For instance, there is a .sLock file le...
about 2 months ago in Machine Learning for IBM z/OS 0 Future consideration

Machine Learning for z/OS - SMF records/statistics

This idea is about "Machine Learning for z/OS" that CANNOT be found in the list, but is also part of the Z Analytics bundle. Besides using product GUI and APIs, MLz should also generate SMF records, so scoring statistics can be collected using exi...
9 months ago in Machine Learning for IBM z/OS 0 Future consideration

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

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

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

Compatability Scan when migrating to new COBOL versions

We would like to have a batch interface to RDz which could scan our Cobol Source Libraries for incompatablity scenarios. we would like this feature to be able to run as a batch job on the host, so no download is required, but can be done purly in ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz Remote z/OS search - adding support for tape

Currently if you do 'Remote z/OS search', RDz can not find a dataset if it is being allocated on the tape, only if it is allocated on DASD. Please refer to PMR 93064,180,000. This is a very important feature.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 4 Not under consideration