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Job Flow Graph view display job's dataset member name.

Some JCLs hold multiple JOB cards.It is difficult to identify original member name in displayed view of Job Flow Graph now.Place member name on the header of view and output file of Job Flow Graph.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Display COBOL section information on Program Flow.

To have an ability see the structure of COBOL sections and paragraphs in Program Flow.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Show/Hide selected type of arrow links in Program Flow graphs.

In program flow graphs, it occasionally becomes too busy to understand the structure of the program.We need a function to select a certain type of link from "legends" view, so that users can follow the flow of the specified links.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Open API for ADI

Provide an open API to take in information from other products
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 1 Not under consideration

CPU time logged if trx is purged while on L8 TCB

To day the cputime is not logged to CMF if a transaction is purged while on L8 TCB.According to IBM this is working as designed.Many applications are now running Threadsafe , so the risk of loosing cputime is great
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

AD to supports standard Cobol Calls across application projects

Customer has a high number of cross-application source inter-dependencies. The product currently supports cross-application API calls via API Extensibility. Would like to request for the support of standard Cobol calls across application modules. ...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Cics Liberty shared library bundle support

To speed up starting times of the liberty server in cics it we have to host the included jar files in liberty applications only one time per server -> move them to shared liberty librarys. For this we need a function to deploy a cics bundle wit...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Aggregate neighboring statements other than control statements into one box in flowchart graphs.

The current flowchart graph often becomes to busy because all the statements are displayed.It would be better for users of AD to understand the structure of a program if neighboring statements other than control statements (ex if, evaluate, etc) c...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Compare datasets that are true TSO data files (not source files)

Currently developers using RDz 8.0.3 can download source files that have any EBCDIC character and compare the source files. But they cannot compare EBCDIC data sets that contain packed and binary values. Even though the Compare option is enabled w...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Tags member of PDS by IDZ

IDz "tags" every members with the user of STC (RSEDx) so the dates of last use are not correct as all members of the PDS have the same date, with the same user IDZ must use ISPF modules/calls rather than reading the directory block info directly
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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