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Menu Manager Connection filters for action

I have a RDz connected to three different mainframes and i need to configure Menu Manager action for each mainframe. The action is different for each mainframe. Currently the RDz support filters only for Data Set Filters. I need actions to be asso...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Future consideration

IDZ Software Analyzer Custom Rules - Add in customised message for the rules covering the section

The storage working section might consists of hundred of lines of code and the standard error displayed in this formatting: <File>:<beginning line of section> <rule description>. THis is limitation to look for the line number of ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

z/VM support for EMC Cinder Driver for SCSI LUNs

A customer wants to have IBM Cloud Orchestrator create/manage SCSI LUNs for z/VM Linux using EMC DASD. Currently it's not supported(certified) to use EMC DASD for ICO - only IBM DASD/SVC for FCP/SCSI.
over 8 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 5 Future consideration

IDz DBB user build errs if the user log is deleted during the DBB User build dialog

When running an IDz DBB user build, if the user's log file is deleted or removed, the build fails with org.eclipse.core.runtime.OperationCanceledException The design in the IDz DBB user build is to locate the log file when it is named in the dialo...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Provide capability to ZRIPL with CLEAR option

Reduce time to IPL during planned outage windows. If customers could zripl with change image names as well as CLEAR main memory operator intervention could be removed.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

IBM Z Workload Scheduler : Save JCL after execution to rerun at a later time

Archiving JS Files to offer the possibility to add an application at the current plan using the JCL used for the same application at an earlier date and with an IATIME that may be different. This function is actually done by a user developpment we...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Ability to Archive/Delete old Change Packages and all references from repository in batch mode, given a criteria

We have thousands of packages in our Configuration Manager created over past few years that are no longer needed and the initial listing of packages from Menu (without any filter) loads all of the entries. Requirement is to Archive and delete old ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Update documention for replacing DEX

The documentation for ADDI state that DEX could be replaced with any other auth provider supporting Oauth2, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.2?topic=configurations-step-4-optional-configuring-authentication-server-dex It doesn't state that the...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Open Declaration (F3) für Db2 objects

After selecting a Db2-object and choosing "Open Declaration" from the context menu or hitting F3, the edit location should move to the declaration of the Db2-object in the Cobol-source. (Analogous to F3 when positioned on a variable)
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

CTG Explorer - add heuristics for performance

We are using CTG Explorer to monitor the CTG Gateways. It would be nice to have The CTG Perspective include heuristic rules included in links, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-tg-zos/9.2?topic=assessment-investigating-poor-response-times https://w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration