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Give a user authority to work with definition GDG-s, but not give access to files and data.

We are trying to follow the “trend” and have infrastructure as code and store everything in our SCM system. One of our source types are sources for define, alter or delete of a GDG-entry. So what we store is only the definition of the GDG. The ide...
about 2 years ago in Common Services Library for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

Cobol Editor: Behavior of Manage Sequence Numbers

When you activate function "Manage Sequence Numbers" you can insert characters in position 1 to 72 without shifting the sequence number (position 73 to 80) to the right.But when there is a character in position 72 and you continue to type you will...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 7 Future consideration

Support Applicationgroups in LTP

Description:It should be possible to add or delete complete application groups in the LTP. We need the same support for application groups in LTP as in CP (Add Group / Delete Group) Use case:Currently I can only add or delete a single occurrence i...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Time-Dependency-Flag in LTP

So it should be possible to display and change the time dependency flag for an operation in LTP. A single letter field with Y/N that can be changed in addition to the operation IA that could already be modified in the LTP. Use case:When we want to...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Modify the workstation of operations in the LTP

We want to have the option to modify the workstation when adding an application into the LTP. So we can use the same methods in LTP as in CP. Use case:Very often we get requests like: 1. Plan the application X for date Y. Only the jobs 10 to 12 sh...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

National characters are not supported under Metadata column in AD Analyze Client

When using REST API functions to place data under the Metadata column within AD Analyze Client we do see that this function does not support national characters.
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Allow api key as credentials in host connection

Add 'api key' as an option on credentials for a host connection in the z/os explorer.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

SSL refresh command for CICS Liberty

When a new cert is added to the keyring, we have to manually cycle the jvms for each of our cics regions. We need a way to either automatically update the cert cache for the liberty jvms or run a CICS command to refresh the jvm cert cache.
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Decisions settings in command line

We need to have decisions settings option (Build Client) in command line because we want to automated the build of projects with these decisions. This is for a hundred projects to come and the manual setting of all these projects would be too long.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

CICS PA Plug-in integration with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator

CICS PA allows you to store data in DB2 tables. CICS PA Plug in can then query such data from the Explorer. IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator is the IBM strategic appliance for data intensive DB2 queries. Lack of integration of CICS PA Plugin with IBM...
over 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration