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IBM Stand-alone Host On-Demand

Add the "Administration" option to IBM Stand-alone Host On-Demand.The "Administration" option should include the Certificate Management utility and the Printer Definition Table Compiler. These options were present in the HOD Local Client which is ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Not under consideration

Hotspots options for point-and-select (double click)

Customer want to use mouse to double-click on the screen.HOD does not have this options for point-and-select whencompare with PCOMM.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Not under consideration

FA: Enhance Navigation in Storage Display in Interactive Mode

In interactive mode with ISPF the navigation with display of storage should be enhanced: Better structuring: FA should take into account the boundary of the storage segments and should restrict scrolling to the segment, where the currently display...
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

include DB2 SQLCODES in the determination of normal duplicates

fault analyzer does currently consider two different sqlcodes as a normal duplicate
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add support for Host Code Page /CCSID 1371 extension

Mainframe customers in Taiwan require Host Code Page / CCSID 1371 extension to support more Traditional Chinese characters in a single host code page. This is crucial for the mainframe customer to solve the pain of the insufficient Traditional Chi...
about 10 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Not under consideration

Present warning or prevent pages in the Deploy Wizard from being named those IBM ships

When a client is using the Deployment Wizard and they attempt to name a page one of the shipped names, either prevent them from using the name or present a warning that this is the name of a shipped file and do not recommend using this name for a ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Not under consideration

Allow or deny IDIREPRT similarly to the parameter exclude from IDICNF00

Hello We want to be able allow or deny IDIREPRT for some jobs or stcs similarly to the parameters exclude/include from IDICNF00. We want to keep the historical reports, so Fault Analyzer should be kept running, so no turning off. Adding the DD IDI...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Fault Analyzer event summary enhancement

We would like to have direct access via hotlink to the working storage areas for each application program in the event summary for transaction dumps and PG link levels for system dumps. This area should be formatted if the source is available, or ...
almost 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

exit or option to suppress SVC dump if CIC transaction dump was taken

One of the product teams at DST would like to suppress SVC dumps within CICS unless it is detected that a transaction dump has not been taken. Currently transaction dumps may be suppressed by FAULT ANAYLZER which we use within our cics regions whe...
almost 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow option to move IDI messages to a CICS TDQ for Fault Analyzer

As Fault Analyzer deployed to our CICS regions, we have found it to be a bit "noisey". An option to move various Fault Analyzer messages to a TDQ just for Fault Analyzer would help reduce the complexity of the system log.
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration