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Enable "Display temporary datasets" by default

Users naturally assume reports contain 'all instances of usage' for given resources, hiding some resources by default for a secondary metric only results in confusion. This is especially true since there is no marker or notification of 'temporary ...
about 2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Under review

EXEC CICS SET FEATURE TOGGEL SWITCH

For Application Feature Toggels, it would be helpful to be able to SET a APPLICATION Featite Toggel OFF ON dynamically. It would be helpful in situations where large sections of code can be activated/deactivated to execute dynamically.
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Provide a new User exit to read the JCL for a FETCH directive and Automatic Recovery ADDPROC

Provide a new User exit for the following functions Job tailoring : JCL directive FETCH Automatic Recovery: Statement RECOVER, Parameter ADDPROC Today the JCL for a FETCH member is always read from EQQJBLIB and the JCL for ADDPROC member is always...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enable Fault Analyzer extension on VS Code marketplace

We're enabling various extensions on VS Code IDE and is looking for the extension of IBM Fault Analyzer so it can be installed in VS Code to enable user running abend analysis from the product.
about 2 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1

Improve FFDC for GDPS

In the case TS002648540, the log and trace data from GDPS did not provide enough details to track down the root cause of the problem. We could not always have the DEBUG ON in GDPS to capture additional message all the time and this will cause floo...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 17 Not under consideration

Enhanced DBB User Build results view

Today, DBB User build is prompting the developer after the execution with a dialog to list the programs build log and the build report.When the developer closes the dialog, the information need to be retrieved from work directory on USS, which tak...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration

post SMPE instructions for ADCD products

Hi I would like to know post-SMPE instructions for all the ADCD products so I can do the maintenance of products I'm entitled to via shop z. Because I don't want to provision a new instance with a new level of ADCD and migrate my data. Regards Vitek
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

cohost manualy generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC

Hi we would like to reduce the number of licensing servers to reduce maintenance overhead and complexity of our environment. Currently, zdnt license server does not allow cohosting manually generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC. When we...
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Enhance PCOMM to properly allow for usage of TLS 1.3 in TN3270 sessions

usage of TLS 1.3 will allow for current and future users to utilize this newer more secure level of TLS. At present, based on TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security) Support in IBM Personal Communications (PCOMM), you are saying that PCOMM is dependent...
about 2 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Under review

Strip EXEC SQL for cursor when running from cobol source

When rearchitecting DB2 interaction between IDz 15 & 16 one of things changed is that running an EXEC SQL declaring a cursor now requires the developer to mark the select statement in v16 while v15 behind the scene stripped out the cursor decl...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Under review

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