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Add new option 'FIND ONLY/REPLACE' in the IDz cobol editor

Hello, In the test IDz version (14.2.3.x or 15.0.x), there is a need to enhance find/replace option. When user wants to find and replace particular occurrences of a word, it wouldn't be possible in the existing 'find/replace' combination. For exam...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Request for a new function to control message rescheduling with deadlock case

We need a new function which enable us to cancel message rescheduling in a case of U0777 abend in an IFP region. When a U0777 occurs, an IFP region ALWAYS reschedules the message. Sometimes this specification leads to repeating U0777s if 3 or more...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

installation of AD should check for java 8 64bit

Customer installs AD 6.0 and has not pre-installed correct mode of Java 8 (it is not 64bit) ... the installation script should detect this and halt installation
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

IMS support for OSGi Framework

IMS should support OSGi Framework within IMS Regions (applications)
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

Unable to pass headers for OAUTH2 apiRequester

Customer has an api requestor that is configured to use oauth2 but the JWT provider requires a scope parm and a http header Client-Application be sent. Looking to do this in the server.xml.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 6 Not under consideration

We should able to extract Cross Application Callgraph details in csv format.

Currently, we have functionality to extract Program/Job Callgraph in csv format but we don't have same functionality for Cross Application Callgraph. Cross Application Callgraph are very complex and contains so many details within it. So if we can...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) - does not show ENQ Count

The TYPE-2 command QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) does not provide a ENQ count, We would like the ENQ Count added when a QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) is done.
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 4 Not under consideration

Support VTAM generic resources function to allow a balanced increase of concurrent users in e3270

The theoretical maximum number of concurrent users on e3270ui is 99. However, depending on storage layout, and constraints, the actual maximum number is lower (around 50-70). This limit may occasionally be too low. In particular, in the test/devel...
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add session timeout functionality to Debug Tool

Add an EQAOPT for the time (in some unit) Debug tool is willing to wait for a user action. This would allow to stop a debug session even if the user is unavailable, thus preventing a situation where CICS tasks are left hanging overnight and clutte...
about 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration