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Calculates the AIU’s percentage busy for z/VM & z/Linux

Enhance IzPCA tables to calculate the AIU’s percentage busy for z/VM & z/Linux. Details: We're currently using a z16 CEC and the customer would like to measure the AIU’s processor utilization. The tests are happening in a zLINUX server. This s...
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0

Automated backup of IDz workspace

Automate the backup of IDz workspace.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Retry timer for restarting High Speed Connector Endpoints should be configurable.

As we have been told, when an Endpoint needs to be restarted, the code defaults to 60 seconds between tries. In the TPF world, that is an eternity.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Optimized LUW_DB2 database query

Currently we create LUW Db2 database manually and then attached that database when we create new project in build client. We do this to create optimized DB2 database by using tweaked create database query. We want to avoid this manual DB2 create s...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Change to generated JCL out of PGM=HSICCSI

The issue was discussed at the last IZSAM workshop in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and I was asked to create an idea for it: Currently the CSI report generates IQ-JCL which is pretty much hard coded and therefore not so useful for us. Instead provide t...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to route all messages to a central storage

In larger CICS installation with WOR, TOR, FOR, AOR etc. it is sometimes difficult to find all information related to a problem or event. If the messages are written to SYSOUT, they can be searched, but need to be archived in an output management ...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Debugging from IDz: timeout configuration improvements

As an administrator I need a mechanism to configure some timouts to limit the duration of an idle IDz debugging session. Currentily, timeout can be configured in the IDz (Preferences>Run/Debug>Compiled Debug>Debug Session Timeout), but it...
12 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

JSON PARSE error handling improvements

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose messages and tokens to application code. It would be helpful if application logic can determine which PARSE messages to display or suppress. Also, message tokens can be useful in error handling in...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Store outputs of the software analyzer in individual files

At the moment the output of all runs is stored in a single file. In the future, we would like the run of every programm anaylized stored in an individual file (XML, JUnit, ...).
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

IDZ should officially support the Eclipse Installer / Oomph.

Firstly, the Eclipse Installer / Oomph provides the option of downloading the java JDK option with JustJ. We would suggest IDz offers the same option with its own bundled JDK. Secondly, we would like a EPP package available in this option. With th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

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