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    PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

    Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

    Allow NULL values on Save and Load of XML files used in Stored Procedure call.

    When running/calling a DB2 Stored Procedure in the IDz user interface and using the save and load feature for input, values set to NULL will be saved to an XML file as an empty string. When loading the XML file, values will not be set to null but ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

    Add support for IMS explorer to use certificate/smartcard as login method toward IMS Connect

    As an extension to IMSES-I-112 we also suggest adding certificate logon support for IMS Explorer and especially Transaction Test Project towards IMS Connect. This as a way to further improve user experience and security as clients then can use exi...
    4 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

    Add support for jwt between IMS Explorer Client and IMS Connect for Transaction Test Projects

    When using for example OTP (one time password) as a method for MFA, that is a requirement in many organizations, to logon RSE etc. Each task/service require a separate logon with a separate OTP, some services does not even support OTP. As an examp...
    4 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

    Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE

    Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE. Our developers are used to HCE and what it offers. RCE is just not at its level and therefore the developers won't switch to IDz 16.0 unless the HCE is in there.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Not under consideration

    Add local property groups to push to client

    Push to client is a great capability, however, it doesn't support local property groups. As a result, developers are unable to pull in their copybooks locally without manually defining the property group. We would like to see the export capability...
    11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Under review

    Maintain text formatting by copying/pasting from IDZ to external editor like WORD

    We would like to retain the layout of the text of a COBOL program or a JCL when copying and pasting from COBOL editor IDZ to an external editor like WORD. Indeed, when opening a COBOL program (or JCL) with the COBOL editor (or JCL editor), which i...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

    Allow AAM to nullify EXPDT/RETPD

    Files that do not get a DC and/or MC and are allocated with an expiration date cannot be deleted with normal BR14 MOD,DELETE or with IDCAMS DELETE without PURGE. This is the same functionality that this product replaces in our shop - Broadcom Allo...
    3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Search Concatenated Data Sets

    Remote z/OS File Search enhancement: When multiple Data Set Names are specified in the Remote z/OS File Search dialogue, please allow for the ability to request that the search treat the datasets as a concatenation of datasets instead of searching...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

    CARMA Hyperlink to DSN from PRINT ELEMENT

    Currently when a request is made to PRINT ELEMENT and RUN IN FOREGROUND is selected the user is presented with the results and a Target DSN . There is no facility to either click on a hyperlink for the DSN nor even copy the DSN.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

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