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Need additional error message for failed Btachrep Delete

Running a Batchrep job that specified a series of remove commands gave no messages at all for each command until an invalid use of a generic value with the next command then reporting it had failed because of a previous error. REMOVE PROGDEF NAME(...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Requesting a clear of the ZBEVF usage and error stats via a functional entry.

Requesting IBM to allow for a clear of the ZBEVF usage and error stats via a functional entry. Today it's only cleared at IPL.
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Extend IDz editor for mass editing of Refactor function.

Hello In the IDz refactor option, there is a feature to remove noisy words. It works fine at each component level, but there is a future need to activate this noisy word for mass editing of multiple components at the same time. Please note this is...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

IMS Load instr @ DFSDOC10+CC has base & index registers reversed issue discovered while running ZAD

IMS Load instr @ DFSDOC10+CC has base & index registers reversed issue discovered while running ZAD
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

AD Analyze client showing repeated job steps in the job flow graph

The job flow graph shows has the steps repeated multiple times. After investigation it was found out that it is happening due to two reasons:1. Less details are presented on the jobflow graph by design (program name or dataset name is not shown by...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Ability to override PARMs in ELAXFMFS proc through IDz Property Groups

Our IDz users, who use the IBM supplied ELAXFMFS proc, have let us know that they're unable to override the PARM specification (in this ELAXFMFS proc) through IDz. Typically, for all other ELAXF* procs, they're able to override PARMs using IDz ‘Pr...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Future consideration

Add Modified user & timestamp to ACF members

It would be useful to have the modified details in the ACF members. We quite often scan the ACF members for details as it easier than using the PDB. Seeing the data the entry was modified can be useful for ruling out the member when we are investi...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

SMU List job status widget

A widget that enables us to easily view and filter IZWS jobs and jobstreams as a list
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

How many Connection Managers were waiting for a worker in interval.

SMF111 Contains current number of connection managers waiting for a worker thread to become available (CM_CWAITING). But no information on Interval: - Total number of connection managers waiting - Peak number of connection managers waiting.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Future consideration

PD Tools - File Manager V14.1 - MQ files editor: automatic conversion to EBCDIC?

We will need to use a template with MQFMT_NONE as recommended, when in doubt about the original encoding of messages in a queue.But it would be much better if, by default, the message is displayed in this original encoding, with the possibility of...
over 3 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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