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Support for EXPORT when parsing JCL in zUnit

When zUnit is pasring a JCL for recording which includes "EXPORT SYMLIST=*" you get an error "EQA3140E Invalid input: EXPORT" Since a lot of our existing JCLs are useing EXPORT it would be nice if supprt for it was included in zUnit instead of nee...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Show progress when copying multiple files in USS

The progress bar currently goes crazy when copying multiple big files from USS.It seems to handle progress well only when copying a single file.When copying multiple files, it seems to jump from one to the next very quickly, which makes it impossi...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Key management support for Saleforce Cloud

US Bank interested in possibility of integrating UKO for z/OS with their Salesforce cloud environment for external key management.
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Enhance MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect to set message priority

Please enhance the MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect and the z/OS Connect API Toolket to set the message priority for MQ Services.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Support for plain text data in z/OS Connect EE

There are lots of software products, which are able to send HTTP request but can't process JSON responses. Currently z/OS Connect EE is limited to JSON responses, which means those software products can't invoke mainframe applications through z/OS...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Not under consideration

IDz headless Code Coveage daemon output destination

For the IDz headless Code Coverage daemon, need an option to support output destination to remote location e.g. Git
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve SUBMIT trace and allow a tracker to have multiple submittors (instead of deploying multiple submit-only trackers

In this case through a combination of JCL DEBUG and SUBMIT traces it was seen that a tracker was overloaded (needed to submit over 7000 jobs in a 10-minute period and was only able to submit around 6300 jobs. It would have been easier to see if a ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Improve JOBREC to include RESTFUL Web Services

Today, it's impossible to call a RESTful web service via Z/OS agent (Zcentric) using /JOBREC card.To do this, we must use DWC specific plugin or call the web services via a script.
about 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Change default for KLSSDCF1-Delete Confirmation panel from delete to cancel.

People put a D by a session in the menu and if they just hit enter on the delete confirmation screen it deletes the session and marks it blocked. It would be nice if the default is changed to cancel then people have to make the choice to delete th...
about 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

CPSM API Threadsafe

CPSM API to made threadsafe, in line with IBM recommendation for customers to write applications using threadsafe techniques.
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration