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IDz editor pane to display the current Cobol Section Header name

It is suggested that the Section Header Name should always be displayed on the top of the IDz editor pane until the next section begins. It is somewhat similar to the freeze top pane on spreadsheets.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

US Section 508 - option for colour blind staff

Provide an option for colour blind staff to hover over a line in a graph an have a pop-up appear as to what the line is describing.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Query zD&T License Count

A REST api to return the number of licenses in use and the total number of licenses. This would be applicable to all types of licenses (ex: Enterprise and Parallel Sysplex)
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Pause/Resume zD&T

In order to manage zD&T licenses and avoid having to ipl (or dynamically configure an instance of a running z/OS under zD&T), we are requesting the following: The ability to “pause” or “Quiesce” a running z/OS within the emulator and free ...
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Snapshot a zD&T Instance

Create a snapshot of a paused/quiesced system that would include the state of the memory, disk, communication, cpu, etc and have the ability to save it and restart the instance on the same machine or a different machine (or VM)
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Rules of control of promotion

If the rule "Contrôle qu'aucun fichier design contributeurs aux fichiers générés susceptibles d'être distribués n'est manquant" is active, it is impossible to promote a program if you have modify a design after the generation. You Must promote the...
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

API to set markers on user entity fields and show them on entity editor

Some user entities are quite complex and require advanced consistency rules. Coherence rules exist at the meta entity level, but are not always enough.We are able to define our own control through a plugin. it is possible to set a marker on the en...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Content Collector .msg archiving

IBM Content Collector treats MSG attachments as embedded message attachment and not the separate attachment (based on PR_ATTACH_METHOD attachment property value).We require MSG attachments to be treated as separate attachments resulting in separat...
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Not under consideration

Support of the VIPA address

We use the IMS Enterprise Suite Version 3.1 SOAP Gateway on z/OS. When we send a command " iogmgmt -view -correlatorfile all" by a batch, we get the following error messages : IOGS0129E: Management Utility commands cannot be sent from a remote hos...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Threadsafe START and CANCEL commands

START and CANCEL commands are not threadsafe, and if run under OTE, would result in TCB switching to take place whenever these commands are encountered. These switches adversely effect the performance of the application.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration