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Implement field expansion for ADABAS the same way as DB2

This feature is very important to analyze the impact that we have on the ADABAS database side, the same way we have from DB2. This will improve the view from the Application overall architecture, in order to give a full coverage for the users and ...

Add time zone to results of query_license

The results of query_license show military time. However, the expiry time (i.e. Expiration column) of the licenses are almost certainly in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT or GMT+0). While the times of the "currently active sessions" (i.e. LoginTime colum...
about 21 hours ago in Z Development and Test Environment Submitted

WAPL Getdates output in ISPF rather than HTML

when using wapl getdates it output is only viewable as a calendar view via a HTML file (docu.html attached ) which needs to be opened in a browser . my idea is to introduce a way we can get a calendar view within the mainframe session itself , lik...
1 day ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler Submitted

CTGDBG to echo .ini in addition to STDENV variables.

CTGDBG to echo .ini in addition to STDENV variables.
1 day ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Submitted

Support for VSAM Linear Data Sets (LDS) in JZOS / ZFile APIs

Summary Request support for VSAM Linear Data Sets (LDS) within JZOS, particularly through the ZFile API, to enable efficient, high-performance access to unstructured binary data without requiring record-oriented formatting. Current State JZOS and ...
1 day ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS Future consideration

Programmatic API for Dataset Allocation in JZOS

Request the introduction of a structured, programmatic (API-driven) interface for dataset allocation within JZOS, as an alternative to the current BPXWDYN string-based allocation mechanism. The goal is to improve developer productivity, reduce com...
1 day ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS Future consideration

Auditing of events caused by EQQEVPGM

Currently, actions triggered via EQQEVPGM are not logged in the audit log in a way that makes them clearly traceable. Take, for example, an SRSTAT in the following form: Application : IZWSP#TRK#TEST01 z/OS TWS Tracker Test Operation : IZT7 50 zOS ...
1 day ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler Submitted

Provide file system logger interceptor under openAPI3

We are planning to introduce OpenAPI3 servers into our estate. We currently have OpenAPI2 servers. Under OpenAPI2 IBM provide and support the file system logger interceptor to log API request and responses to a file. Under OpenAPI3, this functiona...
1 day ago in z/OS Connect Submitted

Gateway2 bypass password requirement when TIMEOUT 0

I want to use CL/SS as a passthru menu. The 2nd Gateway bypasses the signon screen but prompts you to set a password. If I code Timeout 0, I do not want the password prompt to activate.
2 days ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other Under review

Intellimagic RMF/SMF automated data processing and data population can delete all preexisting LPAR data if overlaid with one LPAR data being run a second time to fill the missing data gaps

Why is this useful? Please refer to detailed description for use case. Who would benefit? Every Intellimagic user How should it work? Please refer to detasiled description. And to expand on example below. If 9 out of 10 LPARS have successfully bee...
2 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted