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RDz support open copybook inside Assembler program

Support open copybook member in context menu in Assembler program, same as Cobol.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

Debug Functionality

Can't bring up symbolic source to set a breakpoint without executing the transaction.
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Provide ability to provide subsystem ID for any application and roll remaining IMS/DB2 special ISPF PDB panels into base

In the SA ISPF PDB dialog:Currently, there are only a few (IMS and DB2) applications that provide a field to specify an MVS subsystem ID.    This along with a few remaining definitions require some unique coding a panels.Panel AOFGDYNA f...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Include support for FDRSOS in CBT feature of ABR

Client is deploying Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS and uses FDRSOS to backup z/OS NFS file systems to z/OS managed tape. Client would like the Critical Backup Tracking and Inventory feature of Tivoli ABnR enhanced so that FDRSOS back...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Adjusting the total allocation size

ACS/STOP-X37EX has the function to monitor the total allocation size and suppress it, as the parameter SIZE-T-ALL.Would you add the same function to IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management(ITAAM)? We are persuading to replace STOP-X37 to ITAAM, ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Trigger Interval Parameter for zTPF MQ Manager

Provide the ability to define a Trigger Interval (TRIGINT) for the IBM Websphere MQ Queue Manager in z/TPF. This feature allows z/TPF to alleviate problems related to trigger type FIRST which is currently only activated when the queue starts out e...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Allow for breakpoints prior to transaction

Need to be able to set conditional breaks before kicking off transaction.
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Unit Testing: Filter option for displaying fields in the Test Case Editor

In the Test Case Editor, all fields defined in the program and/or in the Copybook are displayed. Both the referenced and the unused fields are presented, which leads to the fact that with a compatible extension of Copybooks (and thus to a multipli...
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z 1 Future consideration

RHEL9 support: mgmt node

RHEL9 support including mgmt node and compute node
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Reduce time to provision ZVDT image

exploit copyonwrite filesystem for extremely fast provisioning of image. Enhance devlopers productivity
8 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration