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New Event Processing - System Event - Terminal monitoring

EP System Event for Terminals
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

ADDI - Automatically provide Project list aftert startup

When starting AD the Project List is empty. Users manually need to provision the list of Projects each time AD is started.This seems a pointless action since all the connection information is present in the IDE. We would like to see the project li...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Artifactory Support

The support for z/D&T z/OS images and storage is basically (s)FTP. Support for Artifactory as an image repository would greatly enhance its flexibility.
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Create trace of z hardware instructions

Create a trace file of execution history of the z hardware instructions similar to the CP TRACE facility in zVM. This should capture the virtual address+opcode to a file for processing later.
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Address Stop / Storage alteration

An API to hook into emulated cpu so I could halt it when a particular s390 instruction is executed or an address hit and an API to inspect and alter emulated memory. All these APIs are intended for code coverage and debugging
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Manipulate virt 3390 based datasets

Update the virtual 3390s more easily while the emulator is *not* running - that is, lift some of the restrictions/limitations imposed by pdsUtil. These specially formatted Linux files that are “virtual 3390s” are requested to have these capabiliti...
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Add filter in Build Configuration and Build Client

Need a filter addition in which we can directly search for the name of a project or a part.In Build Client at the small pop-up that opens to select a project and at the Build Configuration level in the list of projects.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Retrieve multiple IMS segments in a single JDBC Call to reduce network trips.

getUniqueDBRecord JDBC call which is able to get a root and multiple children segment types. GetUniqueDBRecord with [String: segment, String: parent, String: ssa, integer: limit, …] getUniqueDBRecord([“ROOT”, “”, ssaRoot, 1, “KID1”, “ROOT”, “”, 1,...
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 4 Not under consideration

ContentAssist enhancements

Some enhancements for the pli-contentAssist:-in many cases the Content assist doesn't Show proposals, at least built-ins and preprocessor Statements should be shown all the time-group the Content of the contentAssist in several pages, if working, ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

show tooltips for built-ins when coding in RDz

Hi!It would be useful to have the description for e.g. built-ins shown in the Content-assist for pli and Cobol, like Java.For templates the description is already shown.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

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