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Debugger clean-up job should stop all debugger message regions that are waiting for input

We are using Debug for Z/OS in our test regions. We have scheduled the clean-up job to run every night. This job executes the Program EQANIPSB. It has 2 steps - the first step stops all the debugger message regions and the next step deregisters al...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Remove or mitigate z/OS Connect IMS API Requester COBOL LE POSIX restrictions that prevent some use cases

This pertains to case TS016566172. We (IBM TEL) have seen use cases for IMS API Requester using COBOL where the LE prevents z/OS connect from working due to POSIX requirements and restrictions. POSIX(ON) in IMS can cause other non-z/OS Connect cal...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

REGEX Function like in PL/I

Hi IBM, you've delivered the REGEX function in PL/I for the use of regular expressions in string searches. This would be nice in Cobol as intrinsic function too. Regards, Michael
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 12 Planned for future release

Allow paste to overwrite to end of line

Other 3270 emulators, such as Attachmate Extra! have the ability for a paste to overwrite to end of line, and not just by the length of the copied data. I would like to see this ability in PCOMM. When copying data, you should be able to flag a set...
8 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Distributed Gateway on AWS EKS

It is critical for customers who are committed to AWS and need to provide monitoring and observability capabilities for MainFrame
12 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

stream RMF III sysplex ZFSOVW (zFS overview) to CDP

We're a big user of zFS datasets, therefore we need to look at the CACHE used by systems using RMF, it would be nice to have these metrics streamed to Splunk using Z IBM Common Data Provider
9 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL specified at run time

It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL phrase of JSON PARSE can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in...
7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

JSONGET handling for null

Please provide options for how to handle special value ‘null’ while parsing a JSON document using JSONGET* functions. It can be important to understand the difference between zero and null in numeric fields. Currently there is no way to interpret ...
7 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Increase size of DB2 column LF_LNAME in table LOGICAL_FILE to accomodate larger input file names.

Currently the column LOGICAL_FILE.LF_LNAME is set to CHAR(32) in the DBB DB2 metadata store. In some situations this causes DB2 error (SQLCODE=-302, SQLSTATE=22001) when trying to use files with names longer than 32 characters. The only solution t...
11 months ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Planned for future release

Allow IEASYMxx member to read system variable context from IPLPARM member or SYS1.dataset file.

Allow IEASYMxx to ready system variable from file, or IPLPARM member
about 1 month ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted