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Integration of an automatic check after a build / make

The idea is the automatic generation of a check after a build or a make for the administrator of AD (in MS-DOS command and GUI AD Build Client).
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support for SQL statements in in-stream data or control cards used by DB2 utilities in JCL

Tesco have JCL that executes SQL statements against DB2 tables via DB2 utilities. SQL statements are processed as SYSIN either as in-stream data, or in Control Card DSN. This information is currently not analysed, leading to incomplete information...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Add Choice of CodePage

When we go through the Personalize my Workspace wizard, a new page Set The Codepage would be really helpful rather than having to remember to change it later.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Record CICSPlex SM WLM routing decision to CICS SMF for post processing

CICSPlex SM Workload management should record routing algorithm decisions to SMF for post processing by products like CICS Performance Analyzer. In addition to having the capability to record routing decisions to SMF, customers should have the fle...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

MFA-Support for z/OS Extraction utilities

We are migrated to MFA on our Mainframe and cannot use z/OS Extraction utilities! So please enhance zD&T to support MFA for connection to the mainframe.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Product usage reporting (IDZ, z/OS explorer, ..)

We would like to be able to track who is using what product (IDZ, z/OS Explorer, Data studio, CICS explorer, MQ explorer , ....).At least, we would like to know that someone is using an IDZ licence (or RDZ, ...)
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Host Graphics support in SWT Beans

Host Graphics support has been added to HOD but it is also required in SWT Terminal for use by the Host Connect Emulator in RDz.
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 4 Not under consideration

RDZ copy host to client strips trailing blanks

RDZ copy host to client should keep trailing blanks. RDz/IDz has always done it this way. Some users can have an issue with this for data that needs to be processed in spreadsheets
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Not under consideration

CICS DEBUG CADP - NO WAY TO DELETE DEFUNCT USER PROFILES

When using CICS Debug CADP profiles - there is no way to delete profiles which belong to defunct userids (similar to the DTCD transaction that is provided for the DTCN type profiles). We have over 100 CADP profiles defined and need to clean-up our...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CPU excessive when collecting data using CICS IA 5.1 and CICS IA 5.2.

Customer attempts to collect data using CICS Interdependency Analyzer. The CPU increases significantly when when CICS IA is activated. Customer performed tests where CICS CPU performance increased from 27% to 62% under CICS IA 5.1. There is some i...
over 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration