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zUnit need to support pointer item and pointer area as parameters of a sub program call

We cannot use zUnit for our BMP modules! We use IMS as our transaction manager, so the majority of our batch modules are BMP’s.Almost 100% of our modules use AIBTDLI.Almost all of our modules use the use the same (company) standard.After the AIBTD...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Change monitoring way of elapsed and CPU in policies

Currently, when using policies, calculation of CPU and Elapsed times are done between EXEC CICS commands. So, if previous EXEC CICS never completes, rules are not triggered if CPU or Elapsed are exceeded. It should be interesting to monitor these ...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

IDz: Add the "Open Member" function to the JCL Editor

When viewing/editing a JCL member with the JCL Editor, the Context Menu should support the "Open Member" function. This function is available in the Context Menu when viewing/editing a JCL member with the LPEX Editor but not with the JCL Editor.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Require the improvement of ZD&T Licensing errors/warning/messages when a ZD&T License Manager has been flagged as a clone

Currently, issues with ZD&T licensing are very difficult to diagnose for the ZD&T customer and even for IBM support. Especially when it comes to "cloned" License Manager servers. When a request file is generated (via request_license), I ...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Improved device messaging during CONFIG failure

During configuration processing of a region switch, we loaded a never used config before as we hadn't run in reverse mirror direction before. When we loaded the configuration, we received the following error message: 05:04:20 | GEOTRC AUTGEO3 MPMK...
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

TXSeries for Linux code page support

Related to: Case #002565956Environment: TXSeries for Linuxlocale: ja_JP.sjis In case of using vendor extension characters in program source code and BMS map source, cicstcl/cicstran and cicsmap command failed.We know TXSeries uses iconv for code c...
over 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Need SA to re-establish hardware connections without recycles

There are numerous occurrences where the BCPII and Hardware connections to the Z environment have failed, either due to an operator not suspending the connection or due to a Hardware failure. When this occurs there is no current ability to redrive...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

cdp needs to support xcom smf record (SMF 192)

Customer has competitiive product that supports XCOM SMF 192 record and would like to move to CDP. They need this support to be able to stop using the competitor.
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 3 Not under consideration

AT-TLS awareness for IMS Connect – client certificate RACF user propagation

With AT-TLS and Client authentication it is possible to check the certificate and map it to a RACF userid (SAFCheck Option). Db2 DDF already supports that mechanism, that is called AT-TLS aware (see AT-TLS documentation). We need an option to asso...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Syntax highlighting for Python

Now z/OS include Python in z/OS, to encounrage the adoption of Python, IDz should support syntax highlight for Python
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration