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JSON support for IMS PA checkpoint report (CHECKPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS checkpoint report (DD CHECKPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to find and mak...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Support ELSE for IF on Function/Subfunction level

Within RPP it is possible to Create Function/Subfunction with Conditions IT, DW, DU. It is not possible to get an ELSE for the IT construct in current release (9.1.2). Request is to include functionality that will create IT ELSE construct as in Pa...
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

Change the way the Preprocessor works for PLI

The PL/I processors are working as designed in the product. But sometimes it takes more than 15(!) minutes in order to complete the work - this is for the daily work completely unacceptable. A feature would be needed to change the mechanism IDZ id...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Delivered

Add the parameter CPYMBR to the FCH command

We are replacing some PDSMAN programs with File Manager. The best choice is the FCH File Manager function. However, PDSMAN supports multiple members in a list, or multiple member wild card selections in a list. This is supported by the DSC functio...
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Bug using 'Search' within Remote Systems view

When performing a Remote z/OS Search, where the 'Regular expression' check-box option is selected for the 'With name:' text field, subsequent searches use the initial 'With name:' value regardless of if it gets changed or not
7 months ago in z/OS Explorer 8 Delivered

GEO-530 (Credit Suisse) INGHWCMD Security

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: sir_mc_henrySubmitters Company: Credit Suisse PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: GEO-530 (Credit Suisse) INGHWCMD SecurityHomework Assigned: Requirement Category: GDPS - CommonCurrent Status: IntialClosed Status: Se...
about 9 years ago in GDPS 10 Delivered

When a task/process fails for ZCPYS we would like a secondary output that shows the first child error to be included with the REST respnose

when a process fails for a ZCPYS we get a generic IWNR1027E error message that states <task> has completed with one or more errors. This doesnt tell the host operator any information, usually resulting in tickets being generated and calls be...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Enable Monitoring for z/OS Connect OAS3 (Open API Specification 3.0) API's

All sites using using OAS3.0 api;s or planning for using OAS3.0 api's don't have support at the moment with IBM Omegamon for JVM and do need it to monitor their api's.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Delivered

Optimization to check the Cross-Application boxes in AD Configuration Service Admin

We would like to have the possibility of checking the box to add Cross-application in projects at once (without going through all the projects). Or that the box is checked by default when creating the project. Or have a MS-DOS command line to auto...

Please update SMF123 to allow for records in milliseconds

The current implementation only allows hour-mins-secs to be collected in SMF123. We would like to get milliseconds into the report.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered