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Delete SCHEME should have a FORCE option to ignore RI Check errors

The deletion of a Migration Scheme suffers RI Check failed because a PSCHEME record references the Scheme. To delete the Scheme, you first must delete the related change packages. However, the customer may want to keep the change packages for reus...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

An option not to reset counts on USS stats records

In some of our regions we use DADS to open/close files in our regions. This can happen several times a day. Each time a file is closed a USS record is written to SMF and the count is reset to 0. Therefore, we have loads of USS records for files an...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add symbolic variable support to IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer

Enhance IMS Explorer so Liberty type symbolic variables can be used as values in fields. For example (but not limited to) as value for an IMS datastore value in an Interaction Profile or a host name in a Connection Profile) This would facilitate t...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Not under consideration

Write code generation messages, generated by the backend, to SYSPRINT DD dataset if messages are linked to source code.

In the compilation output, each compiler message, with the exception of the code generation messages in the range 5000-5999, produced by the frontend starts with IBMnnnnI X where:- IBM indicates that the message is a PL/I message.- nnnn is the num...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

ZD&T v12.0.1 - Dynamic change within DevMap

Hot Plug additional volume (1 volume = 8GB —current it is preallocate)
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Provide 'Open with...' functionality for spool files

Output files of jobs in JES should also provide an 'Open with...' function for selection other editors than default.This issue results out of PMR TS002915303 (see entry 3 Nov 2020 10:49 PM).
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Customization of warning or error messages from different plugin tools

If any branch is deleted or access issue and ,we try to do Git pull on that branch in IDz using Egit ,It use to through the error 'problem occured' and after expanding the error it is giving the error message . Pulling 1 repository Remote origin ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Need a process exclude called programs/utilities with no source from missing components reports

Need a process to Identify and exclude called programs/utilities with no source from missing components reports
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

'Yesterday' selection in Cics PA Plugin

Please change meaning of 'Yesterday' from 24 hours prior to the current time to common meaning of yesterday.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

AA EGL RTL support children of a widget with RTL

This issue is kind of generic, It's regarding the RTL support, Unlike the HTML, the children of a widget with RTL orientation does NOT always inherit the orientation, most of it has its default LTR settings,that means, when we want to present a sc...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration