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CDPz new feature to capture ALL JES2 sysouts instead just JOBLOG

We have presented CDPz to customer and as Logs consolidation strategy, customer wants to capture all JES2 SYSOUTS and send it to distributed platform. As CDPz is a solution to capture mainframe data, maybe this feature can be added in the roadmap.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

IDz Dead Code functionality for PL/I

In RDz and IDz, the Identify Unreachable Code functionality is not available for PL/I. This same functionality is available in COBOL, but not an option to identify dead code for PL/I code. We are needing this functionality to address our overall M...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Provide MODESET data in Explorer

We use the WUI to look at MODE information instead of needing to log into hundreds of CICS regions to review this data. We are trying to standardize the using of Explorer and remove the dependency on people using both Explorer and the WUI. Can yo...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

(TPFUG) Add OSA input list monitoring

To identify / understand the bursting nature of the OSA input list, we would like a mechanism to monitor the queue specifically at high TCPIP volume rates. Sending this information to CDC RTMC is a potential solution.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add timestamp offset for ZMATC data

PJ46868 added a timestamp offset for ZRTMC data delivered from TPF to linux. This RFE requests the same functionality for the ZMATC data. This would allow for consistent data timestamps for any TPF system that has a non-UTC system time in RTMC and...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Auto Refresh for anything that is manually changed

Please refer to the delivered description of RFE ID 80759: Hyperlinked properties when updated should auto refresh automatically in DWC. If a job is reset manually, it would be nice if DWC auto refreshes the page immediately. This would be applica...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Implement way to set CICS/DB2 check in Prop Group temporary on remote syntax check

For us as customer it's not possible to distinguish between modules with/without CICS or DB2 to select the correct property group with/without CICS or DB2. This means, the remote syntax check will always find issues in COBOL sources with EXEC SQL ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

INGTWS : Logging and use of Exit AOFEXC21 for Displays needed

We use INGTWS to do requests against our IWS-Controller in production environments. In normal cases the interface works fine, but we are unable to analyse failure situations which occured with REQUEST=DISPLAY in the follow up. With REQUEST=MODIFY ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG) Stop counting HSC closed by remote server as an error or provide a separate counter.

Today if a HSC endpoint is using persistent SSL sockets, and the remote server closes the socket it can cause the error count to be incremented. This is noticeable when the remote system implements an inactivity timeout on the socket, and there is...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add an option to allow APA to identify areas in foreign address spaces

In our shop, IMS and CICS run as JOBs, as opposed to Started tasks, and when capturing APAs for IMS Dependent Regions, areas that are in the IMS CTL or DLISAS cannot be identified by APA, showing as "Unresolved Addresses". Add a customizable optio...
over 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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