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Add "Associate Complete Program" to the RSE

In z/OS project view, "Associate Complete Program" appears when a user right clicks on a PL/I Include file or a COBOL copybook.But it is not available when a user right clicks on these types of files from the RSE view.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Eliminate the Usage of Passwords for System Tasks

Passwords for System Tasks is not allowed at the Shop. The passwords for the Cognos access and for the Forecasting feature need to be eliminated.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Specify relative time for Operation Not Started alerts

The Operation Not Started Alert/Action options were useful enhancements to IBM Z Workload Scheduler V9R5. But they can't be used in all scenarios. We have IzWS applications that run multiple times daily at random times usually event triggered (e.g...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance IMS to be able to do decimal compares on DL/I calls

Current IMS only performs binary compares when a DL/I call contains a qualified SSA. This is a problem for packed and zoned decimal values and comparisons with >, >=, < and <=. Because IMS only performs binary comparisons a DL/I call c...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Future consideration

No spaces after brackets by IDz COBOL formatter

Currtently the formatter (CTRL+Shift+F) inserts a blank after each opening bracket "(" oder before each closing bracket ")". This is annoying and should be at configurable.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Authentication for BuildClient/BuildClientConfiguration

Hi Moving BuildClient & BuildClientConfiguration from ADDI server to "normal" windows client is possible but it's not possible then to control access to BuildClient. Wish to add authentication/authorization to BuildClient/BuildClientConfigurat...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

enhance the command IMBRCST to allow complex conditions

Today the command IMBRCST allows or conditions to specify the receivers of the brodcast. In HAO implementations you must define more than one condition to address the users that you want to inform. For example: You have configured a HAO solution w...
about 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

ADDI: Disabling logging on the client if no settings exist

When I start a new workspace and no settings for ADDI are set in the preferences, then the log is written full with trace information. In the workspace and in the product itself no tracing settings are set.Not only the performance suffers but also...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 1 Future consideration

Add database fields for DWC reporting

We are currently planning to replace a homegrown system which creates TWS reports, with DWC reporting feature. However, we are missing a mandatory field from the Current Plan z/OS DB2 archive database, which is the AD Owner ID. Our current system ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

TCPIP Secure Socket

We are wanting to convert from NVAS as a Session Manager to IBM CL/SUPERSESSION. It has been determined that CL/SUPERSESSION does not support Secure Sockets
almost 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

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