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Enabling suppression of null valued decimal numbers in JSON generate

We have a use case where we sometimes need to return a decimal value of 0.00 in a JSON, and sometimes need to return without that value(suppressed). We do not believe that we currently are able to do that. We move low-values to a decimal variable,...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

IDz/Debugger: Debug Profile shall resolve procedures

Hi IBM, IDz / Debugger is not able to resolve procedures within Debug Profiles. This leads to wild guessing the correct step to be debugged within a procedure, that has more than one step and so either the first step will be tried to debug or you ...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

TranClass Queue Expiration Time

Improve the Transaction Class queue to accept defining an expiration time for transactions queued waiting for 1st dispatch. This enhancement will provide de CICS to manage the queue only for transactions that still need to execute and it would rel...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

KCPTASH view limitation

In the KCPTASH view, when we select a task that was activated by a channel/IP port on a region, the Related section does not display the external IP address/port that activated the task For further questions, please get in touch with Nicola Giangi...
6 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Review process around starting VTAM dependant Netview autotasks

Note: This “IBM Idea” was suggested to be raised by IBM support as a pathway to fixing an identified product flaw with the re-start of VTAM dependant Netview autotasks. Please refer to case “TS015636631 Gateway links not started post IPL” for a de...
6 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Ability to specify Clock time Interval for Cyclic day file definitions

Current limitation of trying to use CICS PA Panels is when defining day cyclic smf files, it is treated as midnight to midnight cut. In reality our smf data is from around 4am - 4am (Staggered between different LPARS). This means when generating a...
6 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Provide code to allow customers to send events to applications via REST API

This would provide a fully supported way for customers using IBM Z System Automation to interface with applications running on z/OS, or other platforms using REST. This would avoid the need for customers to create their own bespoke scripts. It sho...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Implement support for CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax

Currently the Cobol Editor in IDz do not support CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax. For example: The Cobol editor will flag the function EYUVALUE(OK) with "Unable to resolve reference to EYUVALUE".
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

CDPz messaging modification to support data consumption by monitoring products.

Create message event separator for monitoring software (ie. Splunk) consumption. This will benefit all users in managing data collection with simplifying consumption protocols for monitoring tooling, providing target for each event message. Add re...
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

New System Automation Policy Report for Runtokens

System Automation had RUNTOKENS introduced with release 3.4. However, there is a need to visualize which RUNTOKENS exist for a system and which APL's have which RUNTOKENS currently assigned.This should be done as a Policy Database Report.This is t...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

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