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Program Control Flow Export as PNG

There is only a way to export the program control flow graphic as *.svg which is a vector format, that can't be used by many third party applications (like MS Office, RTF, Notes, Printing, ...) and always needs to be converted for other use. Pleas...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Componentization feature to define small AD projects from existing large AD projects

As Mainframe applications are often complex and monolithic, customers want to use AD to cut these large applications into smaller ones, to support their Mainframe applications transformation process. Circular layout of AD graphs is helpful to visu...

Possibility to use "?" to add Member Mapping character by character

As it's possible on filters in MVS Files, we want the possibilty to add a member mapping in z/OS File System Mapping and filter character by character with "?" like for example "M??????" (mapping only for programs/copybooks on 7 characters beginin...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

New attribute JSONTRIM should be available

use of the attribute JSONTRIM on structure or char variable causes the jsonPUT functions to trim all char Elements normally no trim happens, trailing spaces will be created for each char variable with fix lengthactually only the usage of char vary...
almost 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Need Prime Dupe Compare Tool

We recently had a Prime/Dupe mismatch problem in our FOS production system. We were identifying problem the addresses as dumps surfaced, and/or had to find them manually.Because we only have 2 arrays on that system, we were finally able to determi...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Enhancement to Batched Repository Update Feature

Please enhance the new Batched Repository Update Job Operation function to accept a numeric Print Class. Numeric print classes should be valid and the WUI accepts them.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

Remote console access KVM

Emergency console access for "users" so KVM host console access does not need to be given
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

Hipersockets

Customer especially Linux on z (not LinuxONE) customer has z/OS workload and hipersocket is recommended to connect between Linux and z/OS workload to gain better performance.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

cinder node HA - automation

Currently to manually migrate cinder node to another compute node (if need do maintenance work etc). Need automated solution.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

Allow multiple URIMaps pointing to same URI/URL

With the URIMap vs. URI changes introduced in CICS 4.x, the API now allows a CICS application to specify a particular URIMap with particular connection details to off-host web functions. However, likely for legacy support of URI specification (vs....
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered