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While creating the test case, after we selected "Multiple folder" option, IDZ need to set all the folder name automatically.

Eacn and every time, we need to select manually after we select the option "Multiple folder" and its very time consuming as well. If this is fixd, it would be very helpful to developers.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Missing functions in COBOL

To determine the size of an array, most programmers use a constant and check the index against the constant. As an alternative compiler option SSRANGE can be used, which is not very performant.It might be a good choice to have functions which retu...
about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Add an action Character to start a Session without a Init Dialog

Add an additional Action Character in CL/Supersession to start a Application Session without using the defined Initial Dialog.
over 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Enhance the DBB User Build Information popup

When a user build finishes, IDz shows a popup window which states: "DBB User Build is complete for <name-of-the-source-file> Click Details to see the complete build log." This information doesn't provide any valuable information to the devel...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

there are still limitations of 2GB, and storage must be reused to effectively utilize the insufficient areas. Therefore, I would like to request a function to secure storage through program compress in advance before reaching short-on-storage.

We're running CICS/TS V5.6. Our CICS is expected to run out of 2G virtual storage in the near future.Basically, the amount of programs used is large, so the size of the ERDSA reaches 800M. As shown below, EDSALIM is 1300M and we uses almost all of...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS TG Connection factory override for transaction level

At V8.1 we moved from providing 2 resource adapters, to providing one. In that move the ra.xml was changed to be minimal and the parameters used for the connection factory were implemented using annotations. The ra.xml is populated from the connec...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

Additional fields for MIPS and MSU's on one screen and Job Class

Kyndryl client Sagent Lending is converting from Mainview and they need these requirements to manage their LoanServ app and client requirements
6 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Report on SMF 98 rcds.

SMF 98 rcd produces a 5 sec view of the CPC and its Lpars which is highly recommended by IBM and Peter Enrico for example for viewing CPU usage and other KPMs for assisting in debugging Performance Issues. Provides High Frequency throughput statis...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

Outbound support via z/OS Connect EE

Please support zAPM tracking of outbound traffic(API requestor), ie, CICS to CICS via https / z/OS Connect EE (similar to CICS=>MQ=>CICS tracking which has recently been released). This needs to be configurable as not all the APIs providers ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

JOB LOG MONITORING SUPPORT FOR USING WILCARD (*) IN ANY MESSAGE STRING

Job log monitoring code supports the use of a wildcard (*) as part of the filter criteria. Job log monitoring however only allows this to be used as the beginning of a search string. Example of supported definition: DUMMY :JLM_OFFSET=0JLM_DDNAME=S...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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