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    Flexible Alignment Storage Display

    Currently FA aligns its storage display at starting addresses which are multiples of 16. This is often unconvenient: Sometimes application data is not properly aligned: - address pointers not on word boundery are not point-and-shootable - bad alig...
    over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Better Support of WMQ-Applications

    Currently Fault Analyzer does not properly recognize that an abending Batch-Job or CICS transaction is connected to Websphere MQ. In these cases FA does not show any information related to MQ and last MQ-API calls.This flaw seems to arise when the...
    over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

    Support submitting PSB changed definitions as DDL statements from IMS Explorer

    Hi, IBM IMS Explorer does not have support to submit PSB changes as DDL statements to an IMS system. But it does for DBD definition changes.
    over 5 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future consideration

    IMS Explorer for Mac

    We need Mac support of IMS Explorer.
    about 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

    Add extensionpoints for test case project

    We are using "IMS Transaction Test Case Project" as a tool to submit an IMS-transaction for debug. As today every developer needs to manually add testdata, What we suggest is an extensionpoint (i.e. MenuManager in IBM Developer for Z) that let us ...
    over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

    IE4D : Changing transaction metadata removes service setup

    Refer related ID : 90583 Changing the transaction metadata for a service can also remove much of the setup that has been done to a Service (default values, included/excluded fields), even if the names of the fields have not changed. Extract from e...
    over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Not under consideration

    Content Collector .msg archiving

    IBM Content Collector treats MSG attachments as embedded message attachment and not the separate attachment (based on PR_ATTACH_METHOD attachment property value).We require MSG attachments to be treated as separate attachments resulting in separat...
    about 7 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Not under consideration

    Add support for CICS MP Domain

    CICS Managed Platforms domain is where any CICS System or Task policy control blocks, counters, storage etc. is going to be. The IBM IPCS CICS VERBEXIT now formats the MP domain, but Fault Analyzer is suspiciously missing that info. Please update ...
    over 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Option to generate ALTER DDL and save them in z/OS PDS member

    Hi, I have imported a database from IMS Catalog to my local project in IMS Explorer. I have made some changes to it. To generate the ALTER DDL statements, I have to use "Submit changes to IMS" to generate ALTER DDL statements for the changes I hav...
    over 3 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

    Edit segment attributes to change from fixed to variable length in IMS Explorer projects

    I have imported a DEDB with fixed length segment in to my local project in IMS Explorer. I don't see a provision in "edit segment attributes" to make the fixed length segment to variable length.
    over 3 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

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