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Possibility to export all components from AD project exploration tab(for each resource type)

Hello In existing AD versions, there is no feature to export all listed components from the project exploration tab. For certain business cases, there is a need to export all components as-is from that list into the different doc as it displays bo...
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Decisions settings in command line

We need to have decisions settings option (Build Client) in command line because we want to automated the build of projects with these decisions. This is for a hundred projects to come and the manual setting of all these projects would be too long.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Add RMF 74 subtype 10 support

Starting with IBM z15, IBM relocated EADM/zEDC and SCM (Storage Class Memory) metrics from RMF 74 subtype 9 to subtype 10. These performance metrics are key for measuring z/OS system, application performance, yet with IzPCA, there is no longer zED...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 4 Future consideration

z/OS Connect API Requester support for application/HAL+JSON

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis-administration/api/hal Currently, API Requester does not have integration with application/HAL-JSON, which causes the callers of APIS that use HAL+JSON to manually modify the swagger to define the HAL respons...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

COBOL 6 needs to utilize the memory in the 64 bit address space for business needs and quicker access to data

Humana proposes the following changes to the COBOL 6 compiler OR, creation of a new COBOL64 compiler with these capabilities.1. Make the Compiler capable of utilizing the 64-bit address space to take advantage of the 32 terabytes of memory on each...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

CPSM API Threadsafe

CPSM API to made threadsafe, in line with IBM recommendation for customers to write applications using threadsafe techniques.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

Support for Connect:Direct statistics

Currently there is no way to gather IBM Connect:Direct statistics records, like the TCP/FTP functionality.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Check the transfer of the source files from Local to Remote System that contain unmappable characters to EBCDIC

When using local projects to develop COBOL or PLI then files are UTF8 encoded and it is possible to add characters that cannot be mapped later on to an EBCDIC code page. Check the encoding to avoid that unmappable characters to EBCDIC are transfer...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

ZDT Tools interface : Advanced DSN patterns in Component creation from IBM Z

In the Tools Server of the ZDT Solution, I would suggest to enhance the DATASET research filter in the view " Create a component from Zos System Files" to be able to setup complex filters.
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS Policy to restat MQMONITOR if it abends/fails

This is in continuation for RFE 136876.Like to request to enhance CICS System policies to monitor MQMONITOR status and set it to STARTED if it abends/fails.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

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