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Support for PL/I

Unit Testing currently has support for Cobol, but not for PL/I at the moment yet there is a huge number of clients using PL/I
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Provide soultion to automate setting of CICS options

We are looking to automate our mainframe testing. We are using the RSE API to enable automatic submission of jobs. With jobs adding hourglass options is trivial with the correct dd names, but with CICS we only have the BMS panels with HGCC and HGU...
23 days ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Future consideration

VSAM dataset & logstream ID report

Using D LOGGER, we can get the logstreams defined on the system, but to get information about which VSAM dataset is defined with a logstream ID, there is no such reporting. To get this info, only option is to IDCAMS LISTCAT and get the logstream I...
8 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Reporting 1 Future consideration

VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
4 months ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

Maintain Global Information for IMS Programs

Please add support to maintain IMS program global status in RM, similar to the current support for transactions, databases and database areas, GSTSTRAN, GSTSDB and GSTSAREA. Support for programs with GSTSPGM would allow stopping and starting progr...
5 months ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Future consideration

Change the timing of the first ASMTDLI call to shorten database unavailability during takeover phase

We are looking for a way to shorten the database unavailability during the Online Reorg takeover phase. At present, in some cases the database is unavailable for up to 3 minutes. ORF team investigated with IMS team, From the results of the investi...
about 1 month ago in IMS Online Reorganization Facility for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Multiple dependencies in DWC Plan View

I would like to suggest that the 'Plan View' functionality for DWC on z/OS gets improved.Today when it's used and you search for a specific job stream or application, the Plan View only shows one level of predecessors.The only way to see an entire...
30 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in OMEGAMON for JVM

OMEGAMON for JVM (and record SMF 123) doesn't provide CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in z/OS Connect Server OAS3 native. This is a requirement for the client to get this information to be able to monitor and analyze perfo...
7 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Future consideration

Cross debugging

There are some scenarios where the user who is intended to debug some program isn't the one who submits the JCL. Among other situations, this happens when the job is launched from ControlM. In this case, the principal is a service user instead of ...
4 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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