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FM to remember the latest selection criteria previously enter as and when FM is executed

Cause : On Production, to create/save template/copybook is not allow. Hence, User needs to use dynamic template and this is not practical as the selection criteria has to be input every single times Screenshot per the attached - When we leave this...
almost 3 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow functions to be applied to the Request and Response mappings of APIs

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include functions. I have included some examples below in the use case section, but the mapping capability within API Toolkit should ideally be aligned to that provided by API C...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Monitor the jobs for sending an email when an alert condition occurs

Alert notifications can be critical for any business. Therefore, a method for monitoring email notification jobs is necessary. As providing a multi-tenant system with TWS becomes increasingly important due to the decentralization of work to variou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Name the IMS IVP PCBs so they can be used with IMS Explorer

In order to use the IMS Explorer with the provided IMS IVP and Sample applications, all the PCBs must be named.They are currently not named, and we need to modify them ourselves.They need a simple update to name the PCBs for all users to be able t...
almost 3 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Meaningful complete initialization message fro all the OMEGAMON products

It is not obvious enough to determine the complete and successful initialization of the OMEGAMON products (for z/OS, CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ,.. ). We can't find an unique message that indicates that all the components of an Omegamon started task are re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

3270 emulation in Developer for z systems cannot connect due to different HCE and RSED connections with both valid certificat

the 3270 Emulation in devloper for z Systems refuses the SSL connectivity, if the HCE Emulation Connection connects to a different Server than the configured RSED connectivity. Although both Connections do have valid certificates. The failure is, ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Assembly Listing Headers - Four lines of USINGs information is not enough

Currently, the page headers area for Assembly listings is limited to 8 lines: title line, page number, column headers and... from two to four lines of active USINGs information. I use named USINGs a LOT! So much so, that I frequently blow through ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

Wand user in case no CLOSE statements in CBL program

ZUnit test failure due to dataset compare issue with missing CLOSE statement. So to summarize the issue, test case that creates non text datasets (aka with packed decimal fields) fail as the ZUnit compare can’t seem to recognize the datasets are t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Provide new ADCD RSU (PTFs) monthly maintenance

ADCD provided with ZPDT (for partners) has RSU maintenance (i think a monthly maintenance). The installation of this maintenance is responsibility of the customer. The ADCD provided with ZDT is different to the ADCD provided with ZPDT, but i think...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

HOD toolkit integration with EHLLAPI

Need to enable EHLLAPI property in TOOLKIT which will help to integrate mainframe applications with Pega software Automation tool - Robotic Desktop Automation. As per HOD development team, this feature is not present in existing product. Hence rai...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release