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The ability to call an OSGI Java Program from z/OS Connect

it would be great to be able to make a API using OSGI through CICS instead of having to set up a middle man PL/I or COBOL program to make this call. There are a lot of use cases, PassTickets being one of them, that work better in Java but in order...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Sysplex proxy designation in a larger Omegamon environment

An Omegamon RTEMS requirement is that the Plexview and Sysplex proxy TEMS should be at the highest maintenance level in the z/OS Sysplex environment. But because the first RTEMS available in a Sysplex is automatically made the Sysplex (and possibl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Change EQQACTR1 - Show ZIIP instead of PG

The EXIT EQQACTR1 writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics CPU usage is shown. But there isn't any option to see how much zIIP time the job uses. zIIP time is also a SMF record 30 field. It would be useful to show zIIP usage as well i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Right Quick Fix or right annotation using Real-time Syntax Checking for REMARKS paragraph

In very old Cobol programs migrated to SDP with REMARKS paragraph in IDENTIFICATION DIVISION: A warning icon with a light bulb icon are displayed on the REMARKS paragraph. A Quick Fix is available when the cursor is placed over “REMARKS” but IDZ p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

DFHAC2236 does not appear when CICS webservice transaction abends.

Right now, when a CICS webservice abends only message DFHSR0001 is generated. In order to maintain monitoring and accounting mechanisms it would be nice to have message DFHAC2236 in CICS LOG.
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

navigate to remote system data sets from local projects

It would be great to navigate to remote data sets from a local JCL. Nowadays with all the projects migrating to git, all our projects are local, and of course, all our JCLs are local. For that reason, we would need to navigate with ctrl click in a...
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Future consideration

Keep Array Counter Fields in Response

The Array Count-by option to limit the number of records in an array provides a large performance increase, however there is a trade-off that you always lose that field from the data area itself. I request that the field used to count the number o...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

zUnit: Not using 'USING' but working with adresses

We found out, that we only have the variables of the linkage section, that were transferred with PROCEDURE DIVISION USING … In the Test Case Editor. The functionality in our programs is different. There is no USING, we use the so called ‘Versorger...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

LDAP authentication on HOD Licence Manager

Add the possibility to configure Host On Demand Licence Manager to use LDAP as authentication method. Adding options of Administrator and Monitor roles based on LDAP groups.
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration