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3270 emulation in Developer for z systems cannot connect due to different HCE and RSED connections with both valid certificat

the 3270 Emulation in devloper for z Systems refuses the SSL connectivity, if the HCE Emulation Connection connects to a different Server than the configured RSED connectivity. Although both Connections do have valid certificates. The failure is, ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

zUnit to be available on VSC & CRW

Currently zUnit is only available on IDz. Test cases can be executed out of IDz but, test cases and recordings can only be created within IDz. This causes a lock-in in IDz, so this prevents using other IDEs like VSC or CodeReady Workspaces. We nee...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to group remote systems and filters

Add ability to group filters and collapse and expand the groups in Remote Systems View.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Search in file filter saving

The testers on my team all would like to see the ability to save filters on all of the search's and graphs that are creatable. I know that i was able to save filters on some of the usages i was looking into. Being able to easily share filters betw...

Add warning option when setting a DFSVSMxx LOCKTIME value

Currently when setting LOCKTIME in DFSVSMxx to set a timeout value, the options available for BMPOPT and MSGOPT are to either abend, or return a BD status code to the application. Neither are currently feasible because the application may not be a...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 28 Not under consideration

Simplify Omegamon security (RKANMODU) - only external

We have no need to use the old Classic Omegamon interfaces anymore, we only use the Enhanced 3270 and the TEPS for Omegamon monitoring. While all security is external (RACF) we have no need for the EXIT related old (internal) security implementati...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Blockmode in IDz editors

In PL/I (and properbly Cobol) editors the blockmode-function is very slow if you select say 500-800 lines. If you pass about 1000 lines it will just hang IDz.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the CICS design to access SMSVSAM in parallel.

We'd like to propose the following CICS design changes:1) Have a completely separate TCB or a pool of TCBs to process only the QUIESCE and UNQUIESCE SEND and RECEIVE elements. This TCB or pool of TCBs should never be used for OPEN and CLOSE reques...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

ZDT Webtools server Export/Import Images

We request a new enhancement :Ability to export an image localized on a Webtool Server (web1) to another WebTool Server( WEB2).This request is motivated by : - The need to secure our images on multiple Server.- Several problem encounters during mi...
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Message in CTL region indicating that 64-bit log buffers have successfylly been enabled.

After the 64-bit log buffers (BUFSTOR=64) have been enabled there should be a message written in the CTL region indicating that the buffer has successfully been enabled in a similar way that is done for the FPBP64.It would be beneficial if the val...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration