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PL1 support Business Rules Discovery

NRB has mainly PL1 programs and would like to discover business rules

COBOL5: extended DIAGTRUNC feature for detecting variables size mismatch

COBOL 5 behaves differently than in previous versions, in some scanarios, as in the following case: - Programs that move data to and from data items that at run time contain values not conforming to the PICTURE clause in the data description entry...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 13 Not under consideration

FM/IMS LIST=ACTIVE to show only active IMS-subsys like in FM/DB2

In FM/DB2 there is an option in FMN2POPT to list only the active DB2's when you get the popup to select you r db2 subsys. In FM/IMS this is not available. We always try to install on 1 system and roll out to all other systems. So we could realize ...
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ZCEE Provider support for unbounded Arrays

ZCEE determines an array only based on the OCCURS clause and looks like we have to provide a boundary (max length) for the arrays like in the copybook structure below which means that we cant allow unbounded arrays like in the case of CICS web ser...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

MOVE command in Remote Debug Console

Hello IBM, we need the functionality of the MOVE and SET commands for the Remote Debugger's Debug Console. The command is currently supported only in the 3270 Debugger.
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Allow helps associated to alerts in the KOBSITEC workspace (e3270ui)

Like in TEP, we would like in the e3270ui a Help for the alerts shown in the KOBSITEC workspace. It should be the same (plain text) that was defined in the Situation that generate the alert. The Help could be an additional option in the "Options M...
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

Support JAVA 11 for Historical Data Archiver for enabling reporting feature in TDWC.

Add Support for JAVA 11 for the Historical Data Archiver that loads DB2 data into the reporting feature in the DWC.
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

CICS Explorer MFA Support for zOS Connections outside RSE

Currently only zOS RSE connections include MFA support. We currently use zOS FTP, zOS Connect, etc. Connections.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Not under consideration

Manage 3270 terminals into Z

Integrate 3270 terminal over the web browser in IBM ee so I can access TSO and MASTER console
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Restore functionality to allow allocation of new dataset in batch JCL from 3.3 dataset copy menu item.

To have reusable JCL / to help new users with examples of File Manager batch JCL allocating new datasets when using the DSC (dataset copy) function.
8 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration