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Add Name-Value Pair (NVP) area to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger

We'd like the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area added to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger because with increased use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collect...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Support for input field in Menu Manager dialog for password type fieles

Customer needs to enter a password in the Menu manager dialog to be passed to REXX program, and need this field hidden ( password Type input field) on the screen.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

View paths to sources

The IP addresses of the machine, where the sources are stored, are currently visible to users, for example in reports (inventory), usages and in the Eclipse window "Properties" for projects or resources (programs, copy...). This information is not...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Expand the Variable usage filter with the content of the variable

Currently, only the variable name and / or the program can be specified as a criterion via the usage variable. The result set can be very extensive when querying variables across several AD projects and therefore the viewing for the user can also ...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Software analyzer : Documentation explaining code conformity/violations with examples

Some of the existing software analyzer built-in rules are not very comprehensive with examples. It is becoming more difficult to read code violation report and correct themselves by developers. For example built-in rule "Avoid using 88-entries in ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

zCEE Add custom header in request pre-invoke interceptor

We were looking at having the preinvoke request interceptor ADD a new custom header to the flow, that would contain the value of System.currentTimeMillis(); it could contain other values as well for future needs. On the post invoke; read the heade...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ZUnit: Support for TYPES LOB (BLOB, CLOB...)

Support of fields with SQL types LOB (BLOB, CLOB...) .Example: 10 'A'-TXT-NACHM-GRND USAGE SQL TYPE IS XML AS CLOB(10000) OCCURS 1.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

Copy row when editing DB2 table

Add a copy/repeat function to copy an existing row in a table when using the Data perspective to edit a table. Suggestion: Right-clicking on a row and have the option to Copy row.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

CLIST

Support CLIST
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

IDz MVS filter should allow to create filter having first qualifier as * in dataset names similar to 3270?

IDz MVS filter should allow to create filter having first qualifier as * in dataset names similar to 3270? This would be useful to display say the first 10 entries. Mainframe 3270 screen allows wildcard for first level qualifier , why IDz it is no...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration