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Allow wildcards in SuperC batch member selection

Using SuperC Search-For from the ISPF panels allows members to be selected using '*' and '%' wildcards, i.e. like '*SP3%' as a membername. It would be very useful if the same format could be used in SELECT statements in the JCL SYSIN dataset
over 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 4 Future consideration

CPSM API Timeout/Retry if MAS cycling

CPSM API programs throw an error if a MAS is cycling since the state of the MAS is indeterminate and CPSM times out waiting for a response. The timeout error causes our API program to fail. We would like the CPSM API to be more tolerant of transit...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improved storage usage when using moves to change encodings

We are using the functions display-of and national-of to dynamically change between encodings. Like this: MOVE FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF ( FUNCTION NATIONAL-OF ( INPUT-DATA (1:INPUT-LENGTH), CHARSET-CCSID), 277) TO OUTPUT-DATA (1:EXPECTED-OUTPUT-LENGTH)...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

Optimizing the opening of the Build Configuration tool

This change request follows the TS003720822 incident on the Build Configuration tool.Loading the list of projects in Build Configuration is very long in production.The loading time is 40 minutes for about 650 projects in production.For the record,...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Debug 'z/OS Batch application using JCL' without file suffix *.jcl

Hi IBM, when I like to create a Debug Configuration with "z/OS Batch application using JCL", I need to select a "Base JCL". Unfortunatley IDz doesn't resolve this JCL Member/Data Set, if the "z/OS File Mapping" for that remote data set is not *.jc...
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Profile Path, Icon Path, Embedded Macro Variable usage

Macro “include” statement under PCOMM Allow the use of the macro “include” statement so we can include the “global.mac” file they built in some of the more complex Macros. This was in version 12 and 13 from macros HCL built but in version 14 it fe...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Integration z/OSMF – System Automation: Registered provisioned instances to System Automation

We are currently making the first steps in automating the provisioning of z/OS middleware such as Broker, MQ, CICS, DB2. As part of the provisioning we would like to be able to register provisioned middleware instances (started tasks, subsystems) ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

To implement the REFRESH RACF command via PIF/OCL o WAPL function.

To activate RACF sub resources, only option 9.6 in TWS is available. There are chances to use 9.5 mistakenly. To avoid this, if there is an option in WAPL or PIF, it would be more usefull. Raised case for this, i was suggested to refresh RACF reso...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Create base64 auth token from credentials in the Swagger UI of z/OS Connect API Editor

The into the z/OS Connect API Editor integrated Swagger UI allows an easy testing of z/OS Connect API services. The only thing for which you still need a separate tool is the generation of the base64 auth token which is being needed when calling s...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Choice of view-level Page size for ALL workspaces as opposed to setting/resetting it for each Workspace

Currently each Workspace has the View-level page size at a default of showing 100 rows; you can reset that to ALL ROWS (or another number of rows) for each workspace. In our environment we would like to have the option to change that default setti...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 4 Functionality already exists

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