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Schedule information missing for Time triggered jobs in "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow"

In "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow" chart, the time trigger schedule information for jobs in CA7. please provide this feature as time trigger schedule is a key capability widely used in batch schedule. There was a RFE 146935 raised earlier and there wer...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Record restart action taken by operator

It would be useful if the type of restart issued by an operator was recorded in the audit file. We use the restart and cleanup option for part of our batch not all of it and when we have issues with a restart it would be helpful to know if the ope...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Have a Cobol program Outline available while viewing source

Purpose: to enhance the ability of viewing and navigating Cobol code by the use of an outline of the program structure. Clicking on the different divisions, sections or paragraphs will take you to that point. This makes the engineer's job easier a...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Instream temporary file names in Callgraph are unclear

To track this future enhancement, L3 support has asked for an RFE to be raised asking for improvement to the display of temporary datasets so it does not show strange names such as EZ_SYSIN_2613 for temporary datasets.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Additional functionality required for tagging products using "user defined fields" to be extracted by the Inquisitor

Most companies install IBM and ISV products on a single system in their environment (a product install and maintenance system). Then, using some process, propagate the product(s) on Sysres or program product volumes to other systems. Most companie...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 5 Future consideration

Public API for Application Discovery Parser and Impact Analysis

Application Discovery is good at understanding the overall mainframe application platform. It creates a repository of parsed mainframe components and also cross linkages and dependencies. Since Application Discovery parses the COBOL program and st...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Display of the number of results determined in a usage analysis

Currently, the number of results found is not displayed in a usage analysis. The number can only be determined by manual counting. Especially when a usage analysis is started over several AD projects, all AD projects must first be opened in the tr...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Ability to group CICS regions together and start IA Collection process `by group`.

From a recent workshop for CICS IA with PNC · Customer has hundreds of CICS regions on their current environment and would like to group them into Dev, Prod and Application based regions. · Once grouped, customer would like to start CICS IA collec...
over 1 year ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

support DB2 LUW as key repository for EKMFWEB

We have z/OS customers interested in pervasive encryption that do not run DB2 on z/OS. Currently only official support exists for DB2 z/OS as key repository. As the EKMFWEB product supports jdbc2 type 2 and type 4 it could target a DB2 LUW running...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Planned for future release

PL/1 Unit Tests

We want to unit test PL/1 moduls (also internal procedures). This would be possible by adding additional code to a module with a generator I wrote. The problem by doing this is that the source code tested would be not the same than the one deploye...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration