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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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Planned for future release

Bidirectional Hebrew support for z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3.0 - API Provider

At the moment bidirectional (BIDI) Hebrew support is only available for CICS API providers running in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 2.There is a critical need of BIDI support for (CICS) API providers in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3.0, as otherwise text fields co...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect Planned for future release

Use VSAM system managed buffers (SMB) instead of LSR to reduce the CPU consumption by the controller task by around 40%

zWS has used   LSR (local shared resources) for some of its VSAM files for decades, but recent analysis by the VSAM and PERFORMANCE teams related to a customer case indicated that there could be significant CPU savings if SMB were implemented...
24 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler Planned for future release

HACPEE support on Openshift

We need HACPEE support on Openshift and images available on Openshift catalog
almost 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software Planned for future release

More DB2 related Data Stream

Currently the tool does not have the option to send SMF_102_QW140 and SMF_102_QW141 DB2 related SMF records. Our DB2 team needs this SMF records. Is it possible to add these data streams to the tool?
6 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics Planned for future release

Pass LPAR names in Instana spans to make it possible to differentiate Application flows between UAT and PROD environment in case they use the same CICS region names and CICS transaction names

In environments where IBM Z Application Performance Management (Z APM Connect via Z Observability Connect) is used with Instana, customers often operate multiple environments such as UAT and PROD with identical CICS region names, CICS transaction ...
6 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Planned for future release

Develop an exit that would take the CS089 user pop up message and then automatically issue the VFORCE of their ID, so they can logon again.

Hello, Please, develop an exit that would take the CS089 user pop up message and then automatically issue the VFORCE of their ID, so they can logon again. Kind regards, Adam Fekete
4 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime Planned for future release

Specify timeout on the individual WEB CONVERSE commands instead of RTIMOUT on the whole transaction

The RTIMOUT value specified for the transaction that starts the user application indicates the time that the application is prepared to wait to receive the incoming message. (RTIMOUT is specified on the transaction profile definition). However, in...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Planned for future release

Store hyperswap information in SA tables

History of planned and unplanned hyperswaps
over 1 year ago in GDPS Planned for future release

Include category_encoders package in Python 3.13

Include category_encoders package in Python 3.13. It is an import pre-processing packages used by multiple customers as part of their ML pipeline.
19 days ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS Planned for future release