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Moving Not responding message at top of window to status bar as in progress and not to freeze the window

The IDZ 16.0.4 hanges in regular activities very randomly, while opening or comparing big size files in git repository. Please check the stack trace in the attached case.
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

CICS & z/OS Connect Time inconsistent in report

When analyzing through CICS/PA a report of type ZCON we find discrepancies in the times that make it practically useless On one side, CICS appears in Local Time, but the z/OS Connect show the time in UTC. Could this not be unified? Also (obviating...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

IDz v16.0.2 DB2 sql result is there any way to view sql result in text format like this similar to qmf and spufy shows as simple text file

IDz v16.0.2 DB2 sql result is there any way to view sql result in text format like this similar to qmf and spufy shows as simple text file.Refer TS016428390
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

CopyOnce: too much frequent

As written in the manual "ZG246758" the restore procedure after an HYPERSWAP (scheduled or unattended) foresees 3 actions:1- START secondary on Master of MM;2- MGM3SITE_RESTORE;3- MGM3SITE_SWAP The 9th step of MGM3SITE_RESTORE_MT_RS* procedure for...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Is a defect

EQQ messages for jobs NOPed and SR availability change

Dear IWSz development team, Due to batch monitor requirement, we're looking for EQQ messages for the circumstances: 1) When a job is NOPed. 2) When a job is Held. 3) When SR availability is changed, especially when SR is changed to AVAIL(YES) no m...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Improve the messaging for LCP Configuration changes in GDPS

LCP is critical to our cyber protection planning. We maintain our SGC captures for 7 days, and for security reasons wish to raise an alert of the retention period is changed. Currently there is no GEOxxxxxW message issued just a vague GEORPT messa...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 5 Planned for future release

Respect the dbb-userbuild settings in zapp files also in IDz.

Our users consider it cumbersome to manually click themselves through the whole USS folder structure when configuring the DBB userbuild. With VSCode and z open editor one can configure the user build using a special section of the zapp file (https...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Enabel the EPILOG in OMEGAMON z/OS in the future

Hi support, In the PID - 5698-T01 , the lastest version in OM-z/OS V550, withdrew the EPILOG support from V530. In the document, the alternately method - RMF III near term history is instead. But we found the RMF III report only get the SYSTEM lev...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add the ability to connect via passticket with "Remote Connection Emulator" (RCE) from IBM Developper for z/OS 16*

Currently, users can connect to IDz thru RACF passticket but must use a user/password to connect to HCE, and now RCE. Would it be possible to find a method or at least reuse the passticket connection set up on IDz to automatically connect to the h...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Not under consideration

Modify PIPESCAN mechanism similar to PHASEIN

Hi, customer is having some problems during PIPESCAN process when the CICS workload is too high. While the webservice is updating, if the webservice is in use, as the process is not able to free the used resource, the update process could take sev...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration