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ZD&T should allow to keep the extracted files on local or NAS drive

ZD&T IDE tool set provide option to copy files in FTP storage but In our case we just copy the files in to different drive on the same server. If you could include the capabilities to copy to different local drive /NAS drive that would help us.
over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Restricting Package creator NOT to approve the same package

We want to restrict the creator of the CM package to approve his own package. This is defeating the purpose of approver option.
over 3 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

Enable to create executable programs in PDS

Requirement:Our customer requires to enable to create the programs in PDS strongly. Requested Completion Date:2014/03/31 Background:The program modules, which are compiled by Enterprise COBOL V5, should be reside in PDSE. Then our customer faces t...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

TS Queue - Logstash offload

In PL/1 we have the problem, that people make "put skip list/data)" and everything is spaming the CEEMSG. Now we want to introduce a PL/1 subroutine equal to log4j, Moving all the output to a TS-QUEUE. It would be great to have the possibility to ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Including program name and other information in the StartStop message information for Debug Tool for z/OS

As the developers adopt Debug Tool as their development tool for debugging applications and collecting code coverage information, it is important to have the accounting information about who is using the tool, as well as which programs they are wo...
over 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IMS auto-resume connection at warm start

- new feature:IMS automatically reconnects an IMS-DB2 connection regardless of the latest connection status at IMS shutdown, if introdiced and specified a new parameter like "FORCERECONNECT=YES".- present work:If IMS-DB2 connection was not active ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Display removed DB, after cmd CHANGE.SUBSYS ABNORMAL

1:display removed DB after enter CHANGE.SUBSYS ABNORMAL cmd. 2:display warning msg after CHANGE.SUBSYS NORMAL cmd for removed DB.3:display warning msg after LIST.SUB cmd for removed DB.
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

Include DB2ENTRY and TRANCLASS support in CICS bundles

I want CICS resource definitions of types DB2ENTRY and TRANCLASS to be supported in CICS bundles similar to PROGRAM or URIMAP definitions. I want it to be possible to add DB2ENTRY and TRANCLASS definitions to a bundle using Eclipse, to process the...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Provide utility which reports missing prerequisites for a specific compiler version in a specific environment

We would like to be able to run a utility from SIBMZCMP library which checks and reports, which prerequisites for the current compiler build are missing in a specific environment.
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Memeber reference data for PDS and PDSE

We have 2 customers that require member reference data to be collected and stored the the directory of PDS and PDSE datsets
over 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Not under consideration