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PL1 support Business Rules Discovery

NRB has mainly PL1 programs and would like to discover business rules
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 2 Not under consideration

ZCEE Provider support for unbounded Arrays

ZCEE determines an array only based on the OCCURS clause and looks like we have to provide a boundary (max length) for the arrays like in the copybook structure below which means that we cant allow unbounded arrays like in the case of CICS web ser...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Ship zAPM Connect Distributed Gateway binaries for customers to build images on top of customer-supplied base OS image

Usage of third-party pre-built images can have security or compliance issues in some enterprise customers. Company build pipelines can be mandatory, particularly where security guardrails built into CI/CD processes ensure vulnerability and end-of-...
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Multiple windows for SQL Results

When using the Data perspective to run SQL you have to independently click on the SQL results to view the result for each run in the right hand window. Suggestion would be to make it possible to break out each result into its own movable window, b...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

provide a COBOL cross-compile environment for Linux on System z target

provide a way to generate program objects that can run under Linux on system z, e.g. by adding compiler option specifying target [operating system=SUSE|RedHat, architecture, addressing environment]
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

IzPCA report showing invokers of a given stored procedure

Application teams sometimes need information related to the invokers of a DB2 stored procedure, so we would like to see if IzPCA could provide the list of users ( DB2 authids) that invoke a stored procedure. That is, a report showing a list of DB2...
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

User Customizable ATTN key handling

Default handling of the ATTN key requires two presses of the key to pass ATTN through to the application. We would like this to be an option, possibly in the global profile, to be able to set the default action to allow the first press of ATTN to ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add Originating Program field to CMF

Add the Originating Program (OPROG) to CMF data, similar to Originating Transaction (OTRAN), Originating ApplID (OAPPLID), etc.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add SQL builder in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support some of our developers are missing the possibility to graphicly build SQL query with SQL Query Builder, if possible bring this functionality into IDz 16 SQL editor.
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

TimeZone control for BAQVERBOSE messages

Timestamps on BAQVERBOSE messages reflect UTC not the local TimeZone. We would like to have the ability to control this.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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