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Ability to customize AD report/graphs selection

In the Analyze Client, there are a number of reports that our developers would never use (example: ADABAS reports) that always appear at the top of the list.It would be nice to be able to order that list and/or hide items on the list so that the r...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

SSRANGE with Suboptions

SSRANGE can test tables with one dimension. It's not able to test each row and column of a multi-dim-table. It would be nice to have an option with can test multi-dimensional tables.For example:SSRANGE(STD) is the same like SSRANGE in presenceSSRA...
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Produce message for C:D waiting excessive amont of time for dataset allocation request

All Connect:Direct copy step will fail when it is waiting for a dataset allocation request to complete. This mostly will happen if dataset is migrated or is resided on tape. Produce a message for a specific process/dataset if allocation request ha...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Have IDIS leave a re-usable ASID after it's stopped.

Fault Analyzer's IDS STC leaves its ASID un-reusable. Modify IDIS to allow its address space to be reused.
almost 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow customiziation of the range of SPI command audit messages DFHAP1900

Beginning with CICS TS 5.1 you can enable auditing of CICS System programming commands (SPI). The only thing to initiate auditing for SPI-commands is activating the TD Queue CADS.But there always a number of well known tasks which are allowed to u...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

image file transfer through z/OS Connect inbound scenario

I submit this RFE on behalf of JIM (Jabatan Imigrisen Malaysia) per customer request. JIM have requirement on image file transfer through z/OS Connect with inbound processing.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CPSM - Must be able to recover isolated CMAS without restarting address spaces

Currently, whenever a CMAS becomes isolated for whatever reason it is not possible to restore ("un-isolate") the CMAS without restarting one or more address spaces. Similar situations occur whenever a CMAS/CMAS link (MRO) fails for any reason. Rec...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow for different color schemes based on connection

Would like to be able to customized a unique color scheme based on a connection. Example: If I was to access a members on LPAR1 it would have a say a light blue hue background. If I was to access LPAR2 it would have a green hue background.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Expiration of Output Messages

Currently input messages to transactions can be expired with the use of EXPRTIME.Output messages have no such option to expire old messages. Having the option to expire old output messages, either globally or for specific Lterms or Tpipes, would b...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 0 Not under consideration

Cobol - New Reserved Words to reduce hard coding

My suggestion is Cobol should have two new reserved words containing the currently executing Section / Paragraph name i.e. CURRENT-SECTION / CURRENT-PARAGRAPH (both would have an implicit picture clause X(30). Typically this would be useful in err...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

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