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Support for input field in Menu Manager dialog for password type fieles

Customer needs to enter a password in the Menu manager dialog to be passed to REXX program, and need this field hidden ( password Type input field) on the screen.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Update CICS/PA to utilize zIIPs

The product should be enhanced to offload to zIIPs to reduce the hardware cost of implementation.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under 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

JSON support for IMS PA FP Region Occupancy report (FPRGORPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS Region Occupancy report (DD FPRGORPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to find ...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

AD - Pop up alert to broadcast notification to end users.

In the current AD version there is no facility to broadcast notification alert to user's community, instead we usually send information to application discovery users via email distributions. This idea is about introducing new feature to notify ma...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

User can provide baseline value in Profiling reports

Now the Profiling report's baseline must be the other day's SMF data.But we want to set our own baseline value.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Forward API information to service.

Information defined in the api itself as properties such as api name, api version and base path can be needed in the underlying service application programs. Such properties of the api should be available to map into the data to the service.In the...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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

FM-LoadModule Analyzer should extract SQL SubOptions when listing CompilerOptions

When using the FM-LoadModule-Analyzer, we can list the compiler options of the load modules. If the program uses SQL, we see "SQL" as COBOL-option, but not the used SubOption. We need it specially for recognizing the ATTACH(TSO/CAF/ULI)-Option. So...
almost 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DEDB's - Move SDEPs to a secondary ADS

We face an issue where a single DEDB area can use vast amounts of SDEPs under a single root. This has led us to be max size 4gb on the ADS with no room for future growth. Our only option currently is to look to move off of IMS DEDB's and SDEPs. Th...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration