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JCL includes could be visible on Analyze client for analysis

Hi Team, If there is a option to analyze JCL include usage on JCL's and INCLUDE's usage on JOBS will be more beneficial for a project team. Currently we can anaylze procs, programs, datasets usage in jobs...please amend the process to analyze INCL...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

rightsizing OLDS BUFNO when BUFSTOR=64

IMS V12 introduced BUFSTOR=64 with following value propositions:reduced ECSA consumptionreduced CPU consumption due to less TLB misses in DAT .Currently the way to that goals is paved with some obstacles.APAR PM50656 disabled the feature 'round up...
about 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Future consideration

Possibility to collapse/expand EVALUATE/IF/PERFORM statements for COBOL source

For the COBOL editor, today it is possible to expand or collapse a division, section or paragraph using the plus/minus icon in the left margin next to the division or section name. We would like to have the same functionality for EVALUATE, PERFORM...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

File system logger on Api Requesters

Actually file system logger interceptor are available only for ApiProviders and Services. Is it possible to add this function for ApiRequesters ?.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Future consideration

IMS TM Resource Adapter support on Spring Boot

We have several Java applications needing to invoke IMS transactions running on Cloud Native Platform (Pivotal Cloud Foundry). It would be beneficial if support was added for Spring Boot functionality for deployment of the resource adapter TMRA.
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Encrypt native 3270port for consoles or TSO by SSL/TLS

The Port for native 3270 for master-/hot-consoles and TSO is unencrypted. This can be discovered by penetration tests. Security forces us to encrypt every connection. There should be a possibility to add a server certificate and open an encrypted ...
5 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Audit IWS service functions

Nearly all service functions in IWS dialog selection 9 are critical to business or at least can be in case of misuse or inattentiveness. So, as a consequence, it is necessary to audit all the following functions:- Deactivate job submission: MLOG c...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Debugger Remote Debug Service to permit RACF keyrings

The Debugger Remote Debut Service (RDS) currently only allowa the HTTPS server certificates to be stored in a JKS keystore. We need it to be extended to allow z/OS system programmers to store the certificates in RACF keyrings.
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Debugging from IDz: timeout configuration improvements

As an administrator I need a mechanism to configure some timouts to limit the duration of an idle IDz debugging session. Currentily, timeout can be configured in the IDz (Preferences>Run/Debug>Compiled Debug>Debug Session Timeout), but it...
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Log on at remote systems when sources with copy libraries on property group

Even if you have sources with an associated property group configured with Copy Libraries pointing to a SYSLIB on a remote system, when you open a source with copys not present in the local SYSLIB, the copybooks are marked as not found. If in the ...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

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