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History collection for Enclave Detail attributes in OM XE on z/OS

Enclave Detail attributes cannot be used to create situations or collect history. Customer wants to use that attributes in custom query to create custom report/workspace.
about 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

ADDI Analyze Client - copybook variables should be visible to choose for Impact Report related to fields.

Issue: Inside the project, if we select Cobol Program as resource type and if we choose one Cobol program and click on Impact reports, it is not listing out Copybook variables. It is only listing out working storage variables. Enhancement Request:...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Show what is executed based on variable settings

Would like to set values for one or more variables in a program and have AD determine what objects are executed based on those variables.
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Get the actual address of the entry point of a dynamically loaded program

When using the "SET function/procedure-pointer TO ENTRY program" instruction, we get the address of a routine that is not the actual entry point of the program, but a routine that allows calling the program. The routine seems to be different depen...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

Animator feature in Application Discovery

Request for animator-like feature in Application Discovery that allows users of the Analyst client to step thru the program source code as if they are in debugging mode. When decision point is reached such as IF/ELSE condition, the system will pau...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

The special view to show both the code coverage for each line and the change

We want to request to you to add the special view to Analyzing code coverage of ADI to display both the code coverage for each line and the change.We expect that ADI user can display this special view with clicking the value of "Change %" of Line ...

"automatic" calculation of the length of a data-item

We need that the length of a data-item can be calculated automatically in relation to its context: this data-item is used in REDEFINES of different length, and must correspond to the REDEFINES which has the greatest length. This way of doing thing...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Addition of function to get the size(length) of variables in CAM API

The CAM API for code review currently do not have a function to retrieve the field size of declared variables. This would greatly help the developer to create custom code review rules that needs the variable length. Currently, developers have to c...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) Cryptography

ECDHE is becoming more common with the systems that connect with z/TPF. We would like to see z/TPF support the newer ciphers before it becomes a security requirement.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

ConnectionCloseListener for HostConnections

In one of our Plugins we want to write a host dataset just the moment before the connection to the host is shut down. There is a ConnectionClose Listener in the Eclipse RSE but this listener does not satisfy the requirements, because it works corr...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Not under consideration