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IBM Debug: Improved sort for Monitor Expression handling of array entries

Hi IBM, Please improve the sort order in the Debugger Remote GUI in IDz within the Monitors view. Currently the sort button sorts all expressions on the displayed string. This leads table/array entries to be sorted not by the numeric but by the st...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Future consideration

CPBPLIM should not be allowed to exceed 50% and ALL DEPS nesting level default should be less than 99

The CPBPLIM parameter can have values up to 99 which means 99% of memory is reserved for current plan buffers and 1% is available for everything else. This leads to memory related abends such as S878. Similarly the "NUMBER OF NESTINGS" in panel EQ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

To Dsiplay the "Correct Usage" of an Error when clicked on an Error after doing Softwat Analyzer in IDZ

Like in SonarQube, if you click on an error, it will display the non-compliance and compliance usage, based on this the developer will know how to correct/fix the error / issue in the code. So the expectation is the same in IDZ S/A as well.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

ADDI - JDBC Driver

Product requires DB2 Connect instead of using JDBC driver.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

ADDI - DDL for install/customization

The ADDI product internally generates and executes the DDL required for product installation. It is our requirement that we customize and install any and all DDL for all vendor products.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Add support for using HTTP-Headers in WS Pipeline

Currently we do not have an official way to specify a http-Header in an outbound web service. The way to specify this as an extension to the soapaction-header is no official way.Please provide an API
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Update IMS Data bases directly via a Z/OS Connect EE API/Service without using an IMS transaction

We have customers who are interested in using ZOS Connect EE APIs and Services to update their IMS data bases directly without having to use an IMS transaction. We currently have Z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition installed in house. We also are usin...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS should shutdown when its initiated via EXCI program that issues a PERFORM SHUTDOWN

CBAC product could be made more useful to customers.
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Build Map to include Source PDS apart from GIT Path

As a part of COBOL Build the PDS from where a COPYBOOK/DCLGEN dependency is resolved can be extracted and stored in Build Map along with ISPF stats attached to the member. This will help in detecting changes made to the dependency when the COBOL e...
9 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Functionality already exists

optimize content assist for big Cobol modules

Under some conditions, content assist can completely freeze the UI, interrupting flow of work. This should not happen: either the completion should return results quickly (under a few seconds) or it should stop blocking after a configurable timeou...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration