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JMR function is not available in RDz

JMR function which will display all the previous runs(days,months, years) of production jobs is not available in RDz
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Display deployed ApiRequesters in zOSExplorer plugin

In the zOSConnect EE plugin in Eclipse(zOS Explorer). Please show the existing apiRequesters for the zCEE server. The admin api(s) for retrieving is already there( /zosConnect/apiRequesters/ ) etc...?
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Canzlog Print - Need additional Option for easy use

For CANZLOG is a new PRINT option via APAR available. That was great !But after my first try to use it on the simplest way ... I failed. In our company the CANZLOG was not used only by automation admins which have know how about filters and the ma...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Merging several PDFs into one single PDF file

Our customer wants to explore the possibility of having a button that merge several PDF files (provided by View Print Jobs) and producing just one output file.
12 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

Provide method to help automate the missing SMF rcds when SMF Extractor is down on a Lpar.

It is possible for SMF Extractor to be down and you can lose SMF data to be collected. The only way to collect those missing rcds for that Lpar is to run a COLLECT and estimate a time. It would be nice if SMF Extractor would give 2 timestamps, 1 o...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Future consideration

DWC's job log to show the JCL Directive of the Fetch Member the same as command 'J' in IzWS

DWC's job log to show the JCL Directive of the Fetch Member the same as command 'J' in IzWS. Currently, the job log only show what's in JES job log which required extra step to do command 'J' in IzWS to see JCL Directive of the Fetch Member. 'J' c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Unreferences variables reporting capability

'Unreferenced working-storage variables' report would be nice to have maybe under 'Dead Code Reports' section.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

VSAM CLOSE TYPE=T FLUSH

Allow CLOSE TYPE=T to be issued for a VSAM file so that the HURBA is externalized to the VSAM catalog. Originally entered as SHARE requirement SSCICS0911 in 2009.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE 3.x - SMF 123 enhancement to capture failure events

Part of enhancing SMF 123 record structure for z/OS Connect (both API provider and API requester), Please consider to capture ONLY the first failure (similar to FFDC) related data for any repeated USER enforced failures.. Eg., Authorization failur...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Limit COBOL content assist proposals by user defined type

IDz code assistant proposal includes all declared literals while some of them may not be applicable in the context depending on their type.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration