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performance improvement for zd&t

Customers found zd&t very slow particularly running Java/WAS workloads. They asked that zd&t be changed to support more than 1 channel so that more than 1 concurrent i/o could be run if the Linux disk subsystem supported it.
about 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Delivered

General export facility to data presented in 'table views' in RDz

We would like to have general possibility to export data, when they are presented in 'Table views' in RDz. In some of RDz 's views export facilities are at hand and we would like to have this facility broadened to all table views RDz .
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Monitoring Configuration Manager - Change Generate so that the USS write is not mandatory

Z Monitor Configuration Manager Generate batch job does a mandatory USS write. USS write should not be mandatory for Configuration Manager Generate. Configuration Manager should have another option for the USS write, or provide the USS information...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

Ability to use a change package for single migration - with a 'Lock' option at package level following a Migrate action..

We would like to be able to use a change package for a single migration. Once package is migrated, it should be locked for changing of package contents and re-use. We should be able to look at history, do an install, and perform a backout. But can...
over 1 year ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Provide a mechanism to clone a change package. The cloned package will inherit from the donor package, attribute values (e.g. Description, External Reference, etc) and packaged resources and commands, but not history or state information (e.g. Ready state, Approval states). The donor package remains unchanged. The cloned package appears like a new change package that is prepopulated with resources and commands.

Background: Applications development create change packages and promote these to testing levels in the development lifecycle. At some point, production controllers will clone the packages for use in the production transfer process. Cloning ensures...
over 1 year ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Empty SubMenu

If a submenu list (KLSOPTSL) of 'TSO,CICS,CUA,SSTRM' is declared and a user does not have the right to access what SSTRM contains, the latter still appears in the menu of this user. How to make it not appear? I would like to have the possibility t...
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Expand new REGEX (regular expression) built-in function to support extended metacharacters

We would like to have the extended metacharacters supported via the new REGEX (regular expression) built-in function. This request bases on the RFE 112083 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=112083
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

LE CEEGTJS in PL/I - retrieves the value of an exported JCL symbol.

For the LE Function CEEGTJS (retrieves the value of an exported JCL symbol), we would like to have a same PL/I Function for it. Maybe PLIGTJS.
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Compilermessage for usage of two-digit Years.

As we want to eliminate all years with only 2 digits, we would like to have a compilermessage if the compiler detect at compiletime any usage of an two-digit year.For this, any usage of the Date Patterns: YY,ZY, BIF Y4DATE(), Y4JULIAN() and Y4YEAR...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

CICS preprocessor/translator options should be visible in the listing like the DB2 pre/coprocessor options.

Please implement the list of the CICS preprocessor/translator options to the compile listing, like as in the DB2 pre/coprocessor: DB2 Example: SQL Preprocessor Options Used CCSID0 NOCODEPAGE DEPRECATE( STMT( EXPLAIN GRANT REVOKE SET_CURRENT_SQLID ...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

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