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Require a RESTful api to deploy policy files

We have a requirement for a RESTful api to deploy policy files
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

TN3270E Protocol

Kyndryl uses IBM product called System Automation for Integrated Operations (SAIOM). This product is providing our Operators with access to system consoles. SAIOM is client/server-based product. It provides a menu where an Operator can select a pa...
9 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

zUnit to support assertions 'lower than', 'greater than', 'different than', 'not null'

Currently zUnit only permits assertions ‘equal to’ in the testcases executions. We need zUnit to permit assertions of other types: ‘lower than’, ‘lower or equal than’, ‘greater than’, ‘greater or equal than’, 'different than' and 'not null'.This c...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS policy to capture all CICS abend task

Currently, CICS policy system rule (rule type = Transaction abend) can only capture UNHANDLED abend task. If application program has EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND logic to handle abend, the abend will not be treated as an abnormal end of a task and will ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

PL1 support Business Rules Discovery

NRB has mainly PL1 programs and would like to discover business rules
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 2 Not under consideration

GDPS/Metro ability to IPL on Subchannel sets 2 & 3

We have our GDPS/LCP recovery volumes in Subchannel sets 2 & 3 but GDPS/Metro cannot IPL systems onto those subchannel sets. We would like to see GDPS/Metro add the capability to IPL on all available z/Series subchannel sets.
about 2 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Support mixed case in configuration field „Startup Parameters“

Today data entered in the field “Startup Parameters” will be always translated to upper case. Allow to enter mixed case data in this configuration field.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

Protect TWS Subresources for ETT, JV, RD and SR with authority group id

Implement the field authority group id for TWS objects ETT, RD, JV and SR and protect the access to the objects via new RACF subresources(the same way as applications with subresource AD.GROUP)
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Display expiration date for datasets

Hi, we are missing a way to display the expiration date. Since we often add an expiration date to files, it would be nice to display this in the IDz as well. Please display this attribute in at least one of these views - Properties - Remote System...
9 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Planned for future release

ZCEE Provider support for unbounded Arrays

ZCEE determines an array only based on the OCCURS clause and looks like we have to provide a boundary (max length) for the arrays like in the copybook structure below which means that we cant allow unbounded arrays like in the case of CICS web ser...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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