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(TPFUG/Visa) Need to remediate the overhead of special linkage libraries being in loadsets

Frequently Entered Program (FEP) support provides the means to alleviate the cost of having a program in a loadset that is entered many times by the same ECB. The FEP support allows an ECB to determine the version it should use by locking the base...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Persist Search edit and re-run w/o making it a favorite.

When performing a Remote z/OS File Search one has to enter selection criteria into the 'Search string' (and possibly make other setting changes) before hitting <Enter> to start the search. The Remote z/OS Search view is opened upon the compl...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Update HOD supported ciphers to match industry standards

The Terminal Emulator does not support the current industry standard ciphers. We are requesting that the following ciphers be added to the list of supported ciphers for the Terminal Emulator: #Use only fips certified ciphersCiphers aes128-ctr,aes1...
about 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

Pass Application credentials when using z/OS Connect for DB2

As part of a PoC on z/OS Connect specifically calling to DB2, it was found that the application credentials are not being passed all the way through to DB2. Over the last several years we have changed our Security model with things like DB2 Stored...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

TACMD on TEP

When MFA fix applied TACMD receives security error on TEP window server REFER to original CASE: TS004167238
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

Flag uninitialized but used Variables

The compiler should flag Fields, which are used, but not initialized
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Delivered

Add option to not monitor for recalling and migrating datasets

When recalling or migrating datasets do not monitor until the completion of the action. Make it a fire and forget action. The recalling/migrating message dominates any other message. I will refresh the MVS Files filter myself to check for the comp...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Improve JCL Editor functionality for JES Show JCL

When using the Show JCL function, the JCL Editor can't hyperlink to data sets, members or procs. We have to ?Save As? to a JCL PDS then open it there to be able to use this functionality. This is a big headache/limitation.
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered

Program Control Flow

Program control flow has FROM HERE (to end of the program) and TO HERE (from the start of the program), however if there is an option to use “FROM HERE” “TO HERE” that would be a nice add on especially in large programs
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

EKMF Web - Make Log available listing keys that have been activated but did not get installed

Make a log available listing key(s) that have been activated in EKMF Web but did not get installed in the CKDS. In such case, functionality needs to detect a key created, activated, but did not get installed. This key is then added to this log wit...
about 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Delivered

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