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SDF Re-Sev/Re-Color of Existing Captured Message

When using SDF as a monitoring platform, it would be beneficial to mark a captured message as "acknowledged" by changing the color of it on the screen without deleting it entirely, so that it can be followed up on or reports made later. At this ti...
9 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Need Cross Application Forward/Backward call chain reports across projects added to UI

Need reporting capabilities added to Analyze Client UI with an exportable report that allows one to see and filter Cross Application Forward and Backward Call Chain. Reporting capabilities should include capabilities to filter and export data by 1...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes

The requirement is to monitor end-to-end access from requester to the databases. The audit information must be available in real time to a Security Information and Event Management system (QRadar). Monitoring is for both inbound and outbound acces...
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Not under consideration

Provide ISO 2014COBOL Decimal Floating Point Support

Submitted By: 3100012QSB #56Submitted Date: 2016-06-14, Submitted By: Cheryl Watson
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Developer for Z control-flow to number or order the called sub-routines within the calling routine

When viewing a program control flow diagram it would be great to see the sequence that the subroutines are called within a calling routine. This would help provide a much deeper understanding of the actual program logic. Also some indicator or cou...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Passticket support for Database Access

Hi, We use passticket for IMS SQL Batch utility. The passticket also supports MFA in batch utility. We would like to see the passticket usage in IMS Explorer for database connection, which simplifies our access for development systems. Thanks !!
over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

Program Analyzer should install custom rules in writeable USS folder and not in usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr

Currently, the Program Analyzer is installed in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg. This location is read-only, so we cannot save our own rules in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr. The usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr folder should be moved to a writable location (perhaps /var/...). As a wor...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

File Manager Function Cost Estimation

In File Manager online(ispf) workflows add CPU cost estimation capability.
about 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Please consider adding a monitoring field / 110 record field to track CPU time consumed by TCB switches caused by code not being threadsafe

Considering that an effort to migrate a customer's suite of applications to be threadsafe can be difficult, time-consuming, and therefore expensive and risky, it would be very beneficial to have a mechanism the help objectively quantify the potent...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Set a default value to a given service field exposed as Boolean for a service.

To expose a given service field as Boolean, select we select the Boolean option in the Override data type property of the Edit Field wizard. But we cannot find any possibility to set a default value.
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Not under consideration

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