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Create a facility to add jobs to the CP via call from a non-APF-authorized program

Need to be able to add a job to the current plan via a call from a running application program. This program may be IMS MPP, IMS BMP, CICS, etc. The interface CANNOT require APF authorization, as ordinary application programs should not be APF aut...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Additional Linux distributions support - CentOS

Looking at hosting zd&t in the cloud, it would be nice to have a no-cost option as far as OS is concerned. CentOS Linux is free - it would help keep costs down.
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Equal amount of IF / END-IF statements

Would be nice to have in Cobol editor syntax check or in software analysis a feature which calculates IF and END-IF statements. A warning or even error in case of not equal amount of those.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 4 Not under consideration

need to add AD Parser support for Control-M DOCOND statement

We us the DOCOND statement in our Control-M environment. This is connected to case TS015149717 which contains code examples.
12 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Enable SQL simple comments in FM/Db2

Why useful: CA FILE-AID (and QMF) supports SQL simple comments, but FM/Db2 does not. With this enhancement it will be easier for their users to transition to FM. FM/Db2 just ignores any statements after an in-line '--' comment. SQL simple comments...
12 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

manage multiple API pipelines within single zcee instance

within our test systems we have multiple environments that may service an API. Within each environment we may have multiple pipelines or levels.We would like to be able to reduce the potential zcee server footprint by being able to manage multiple...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Record Generator not generating DAA-compliant code

Record Generator 3.0.1 does not generate code that would take advantage of the Data Access Accelerator mechanism, even though DAA is true and available to the CobolDatatypeFactory, it generates BigDecimal members. A parameter to control the behavi...
almost 5 years ago in Record Generator for Java 5 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to identify build dependencies resulting from code changes.

When code changes are made today, the accuracy and completeness of the list of impacted components that need to be rebuilt is dependent on: a) Developer knowledge of the type of impact that result from code changes of varying types. b) Manual scan...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Not under consideration

Configure replacement for OR expression "|" in PL/1 Editor

Since the "|" character, which is used for the OR expression is not well reachable on lots of keyboard layouts, customers tend to assign the "!" instead of "|" in their Environment. In Z/os file mappings for PL/1, it is already possible to re-defi...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

add new field to AUDITLOG with CPU Usage

It would be interesting if on zWS/TWS/IZWS/IWS auditlog could have the batch job cpu usage added to it. Having CPU usage of the batch completed/failed/etc on it would open possibility for new reports on the tool and also not to have have to create...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration