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Outline possibility to hide procedure constructs ie. do, select and other?

From RDz 8.5 the outline view has been enhanced greatly, including a-z ordering, hide of different parts of the outline content(includes, labels etc.) however their exists no functionality which can hide the "program structures" elements. Looking ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Future consideration

RDz support open copybook inside Assembler program

Support open copybook member in context menu in Assembler program, same as Cobol.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

Debug Functionality

Can't bring up symbolic source to set a breakpoint without executing the transaction.
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Provide ability to provide subsystem ID for any application and roll remaining IMS/DB2 special ISPF PDB panels into base

In the SA ISPF PDB dialog:Currently, there are only a few (IMS and DB2) applications that provide a field to specify an MVS subsystem ID.    This along with a few remaining definitions require some unique coding a panels.Panel AOFGDYNA for IMSSubs...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Include support for FDRSOS in CBT feature of ABR

Client is deploying Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS and uses FDRSOS to backup z/OS NFS file systems to z/OS managed tape. Client would like the Critical Backup Tracking and Inventory feature of Tivoli ABnR enhanced so that FDRSOS back...
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Adjusting the total allocation size

ACS/STOP-X37EX has the function to monitor the total allocation size and suppress it, as the parameter SIZE-T-ALL.Would you add the same function to IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management(ITAAM)? We are persuading to replace STOP-X37 to ITAAM, ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Trigger Interval Parameter for zTPF MQ Manager

Provide the ability to define a Trigger Interval (TRIGINT) for the IBM Websphere MQ Queue Manager in z/TPF. This feature allows z/TPF to alleviate problems related to trigger type FIRST which is currently only activated when the queue starts out e...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Allow for breakpoints prior to transaction

Need to be able to set conditional breaks before kicking off transaction.
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Support user defined metrics in the NVPC feed for RTMC (TPFUG/Visa)

Only IBM defined metrics are currently supported in the NVPC feed. These metrics are ECB specific. We have a homegrown tool that provides a one-dimensional view of NVPC type data and user defined counters that are sent as part of that homegrown fe...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Clear project related configuration files for host based z/OS Projects

We are using host based projects for our development on z/OS, and in some (rare) cases, a host project isn't loaded in IDz. This seems to be related to an unwanted loss (network,host-side) of the host connection. To overcome this issue, some proej...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration