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File Manager performance improvement for DSLIST

End users have compared the performance of SCS data list of File Manager to SASZDLST for the samesearch sting. SASZDLST time is ELAPSED=12.65and File manager is ELAPSED=10:53.01 That is 12 seconds vs 10 minutes. It makes it really had to get progr...
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Format data delimited by special characters.

To fullfill this requirement, the user is aware that he must provide a self written copybook/template. Using this template he should be able to format/map a data string which has his specific format, whereby a logical field to map is delimited by ...
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

File manager UNDO command

IBM File Manager should provide an COMMIT command to ensure that changes during the Usage of a File Manager session can be Commited or Restored to the "before" status. This feature is available by other similar non-IBM products
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ACS Enhancements

1. Associate file types to an application and be able to open the file in ACS.2. List directories and files like Windows and Navigator: The directories first in alphabetical order, then files.3. Drag and drop files from ACS to local directories.
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Shutdown option after performing an update

I would like an option for the user to choose between either closing or restarting IBM TPF Toolkit after is update is performed. Currently, the user is shown a box with "OK" as the only option and it restarts automatically.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

TPF Tool command support creation of tpf connection

Increase the abilities of TPF Toolkit command line interface to support the creation of a TPF connection along with the ability to create program registration session. Also, to register and unregister a session from the command line.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

File Manager for DB2 - add control access to IDAA

We need to be able to control whether or not File Manager for DB2 accesses data from DB2 or IDAA. Our zparms for IDAA are set to NONE, so unless we can instruct File Manager for DB2 to use IDAA, it will never access IDAA. This is a big limitation ...
about 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Code Coverage should provide instruction level analysis capabilities

Code Coverage currently supports a source line view of code exection. However, there are multiple instances where it would be helpful to break down execution coverage at the instruction level.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

extremely large DSM report in File Manager

I like AQUA or the PDTools Studio to handle these extremely large DSM reports can you please get them to raise an RFE so the development work can be scheduled for a future release.
about 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TRLOG better trace parsing under 32bit Windows operating system

Toolkit TRLOG is unable to parse large trace files over 100MB due to heap storage restrictions on a Windows 32bit workstation.The maximum heap allowed is 1GB, however the lpex editor requires 800MB storage to process a 100MB .report trace file so ...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration