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Provide all file types under the New Folder dialogue

Provide all possible file types under the New Folder dialogue. All of the file types used by AD are not currently available.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Ability to view RACF/ACF2 Security Violations

We must have the ability to view the traditional RACF/ACF2 Security violations in order to quickly troubleshoot issues
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Not under consideration

FlashCopy support in emulated disks

To support fast reset of testing scenarios, we would like to make use of FlashCopy backup and restore features from within z/OS. This would require the relevant support be provided in the disk emulation layer of the product.
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Dynamically add and remove emulated volumes on a running zD&T

The alcckd command supports the volume versioning feature. This tracks changes to the volume which can then be committed or rolled back. The challenge is that this must be setup and then subsequently actioned when the volume is offline from the em...
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Improvements to BTS debugging with LE Debug Tool User Exits - Debugging specific programs

I was setting up BTS IMS debugging for State of Tennessee. The Debug Tool Setup Utilities provides option 9, IMS BTS debugging, to enable debugging IMS Message processing programs in a BTS environment. However, the current configuration will debug...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

flood controls for policy rules and events

Provide a user customizable mechanism to control floods of triggered policy rules and events.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

PL/1 web connectivity and web service support

Currently, no web connectivity can be set up from PL/1. As a consequence, we cannot call web services from PL/1 batch programs on z/OS.We prefer to have some builtins to set up web connectivity and to call web interfaces described with WSDLs, XML ...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

compare resources

Provide a mechanism to compare multiple resources and highlight the differences. It would be very useful to be able to easily compare multiple different resources between the two regions.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Print Button/Function

A PRINT function, in CICS Explorer would be very handy. to send a 'printer friendly' view to a printer.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Not under consideration

Tool to auto correct COBOL code with EXEC SQL stmts that require period

Though there has been a requirement that EXEC SQL INCLUDE statements are to be terminated with a period, IBM never enforced this rule when the DB2 Preprocessor was released. As a result, many Users did not "properly" code their COBOL DB2 programs....
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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