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option to always check "Discover the pending changes to load for building x" in User Build

When opening the User Build dialog, we see an option on the second page called "Discover the pending changes to load for building x".We would like a preference to set the default value of this option, so that when the preference is true, this "dis...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Add Visual and Logical Text Layer in DB2 properties for IDz 16.x

Hi, For Hebrew users (or other languages that write from right to left), there is a need to read the SQL results in Visual Text Layer, otherwise the data is displayed in reverse order. We can't find the Text Layer option on Default BiDi Settings i...
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Missing DB2 load/import option in IDz 17.0.2

Until IDz v15, with the Data Source Explorer, the Db2 load/import option was available, but now that Data Studio has been deprecated (since IDz v16), the functionality is missing?
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Under review

DB2z Connections: Display SQL query with complete table or field information

When an IDz DB2z Connections SQL query is executed and the table being queried has a very large field, it is displayed with an ellipsis at the end.If the ellipsis is selected, a window is displayed showing the entire record. Sometimes, the record ...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Planned for future release

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.
9 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Submitted

Alternative schema to be searched in place of the SYSIBM schema

The Catalog navigation function requires read access to several Db2 system catalog tables. In some cases, system administrators deliberately do not grant access to SYSIBM. Instead, a set of views, or copies of the system catalog tables are in an a...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 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...
over 6 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

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...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted