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Ability to account the CPU consumption for RLS access after migration to threadsafe.

After the programs were migrated to threadsafe, the CPU usage by the accesses to the RLS were removed from the SMF110 field, RLSCPUT (now is zero) and were added to the USRCPUT field, making the customer not able to know how much CPU time was cons...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Use metadata such as DFDL to generate C structures and assembler DSECTs

With DFDL being both language agnostic and extensible through namespace based attributes and annotations, attributes and/or annotations could be added to indicate the name and optionally, data type, to use when generating such artifacts as well as...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

"bypass generate processor" check box on the edit/retrieve SCM endevor panel is irrelevant.

when editing or retrieving an element from endevor SCM. in the EDIT/RETRIVE pannel one of the options is :"bypass generate processor" . this check box is irrelevant. since when editing no generation should be performed. so it has to be checked wit...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Add functional group column in "Project explorer" view

Have a new column to group multiple projects in "Project explorer" view.Be able to set up the group to put a list of projectsFunctionality for administrators only (AD Configuration Servers Admin for example).Please see file attachement.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Please add JCL include into explore project tab

The JCL includes are loaded into the AD project, it would be good if it can be viewed in the explore project tab under the resource type drop down list. I'm aware the JCL includes can be viewed in search in files, but I had to only select JCL incl...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Artificial intellegence software for assistance of MBA fields categories

Artificial intellegence assistance software manufacturing for MBA operations management, international business, Finance management , business intellegence, quality management , business management, management informations system, EMBA ,Financial ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Not under consideration

CICS CM Agent Functionality

Currently the agent handles CEDA INSTALL, we would like to see it also handle CEDA DEFINE. We plan to use CM agent for our remote CICS region and having to manually NDM or xmit the CSD DEFINE commands to the remote site and then run batch job to s...
about 6 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Planned for future release

Heartbeat message for long running IMPORTs under managed ACBs

In an IMS managed ACB environment the IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG) command is being used to activated previously generated directory control blocks for PSBs and DBDs. If you are importing a larger number of control blocks, the import processing can...
almost 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

CPSM to CSD conversion

Currently there is no utility available in ADDI to convert CPSM resources to CSD. We are looking for a function to be available in ADDI tool itself for the conversion.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Digital chemical composition analyzer reporter device working with the application software

Digital chemical composition analyzer reporting device for every artificial organic product manufacturing Applied when using Water as raw material air supplied in bubble form and applying particular molecular level energy signal enhancing device f...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration