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LDAP active directory msft support on HOD

Actor : 600 users are potentially interested to ldap control for access to our I--series and mainframe environment Description: We are using Microsoft LDAP Autenthication feature as a standard for our environment and we need to introduce it also f...
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 7 Not under consideration

zDT Tools copy back to sourec LPAR

After application code and test data changes, enable Tools to copy back onto the source LPAR for further integration test and deployment.
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

zDT ADCD pre-configured to work with ADFz client tools

Customer required and IBM TEC requirements to enable ADCD image pre-configured to work with ADFz tools (IDz, Debug, FM, FA and APA). This would inlcude compile, link, bind and debug jcl generated via IDz using sample PROCs reconfigured to work usi...
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Provide all file types under the New Folder dialogue

Provide all possible file types under the New Folder dialogue. All of the file types used by AD are not currently available.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Ability to view RACF/ACF2 Security Violations

We must have the ability to view the traditional RACF/ACF2 Security violations in order to quickly troubleshoot issues
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Not under consideration

FlashCopy support in emulated disks

To support fast reset of testing scenarios, we would like to make use of FlashCopy backup and restore features from within z/OS. This would require the relevant support be provided in the disk emulation layer of the product.
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Dynamically add and remove emulated volumes on a running zD&T

The alcckd command supports the volume versioning feature. This tracks changes to the volume which can then be committed or rolled back. The challenge is that this must be setup and then subsequently actioned when the volume is offline from the em...
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

flood controls for policy rules and events

Provide a user customizable mechanism to control floods of triggered policy rules and events.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improvements to BTS debugging with LE Debug Tool User Exits - Debugging specific programs

I was setting up BTS IMS debugging for State of Tennessee. The Debug Tool Setup Utilities provides option 9, IMS BTS debugging, to enable debugging IMS Message processing programs in a BTS environment. However, the current configuration will debug...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

compare resources

Provide a mechanism to compare multiple resources and highlight the differences. It would be very useful to be able to easily compare multiple different resources between the two regions.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration