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ECBRM/ECB Owner Collection - add retention to FS files

When running ZECBM Collect or ZMOWN Collect, the file system is used to hold the .csv results file and in the case of ZMOWN, the config file. This file is pulled off TPF but the online file is left and must be manually cleaned up. For ZECBM Collec...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ECBRM LSETNAME=DEFAULT should be required to prevent erroneous update of the default ECBRM values.

In developing our processes for measuring resource usage and setting up ECBRM in PSS, we feel that application programmers could omit the LSETNAME= parm on the ZECBM SET command which would cause the default table to be updated erroneously. We wou...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

IRemoteErrorFeedback.performErrorfeedback()

To fill the RemoteErrorList from a custom plugin you have to use the IRemoteErrorFeedback interface and the performErrorfeedback Method. Up to that point it is part of the RDz API. Unfortunately there is no implementation of the interface provided...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 5 Not under consideration

TPF MongoDB user account password expiration

Please add the ability for user accounts in the TPF MongoDB server to be created and maintained with the following: 1) non expiring password2) a password that changing after a configurable number of days.3) a password that expires and can only be ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF MongoDB connection limits by user account

Please implement the ability to configure connection limits to the TPF MongoDB server by user account.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

GDG allocation

Able to minimize the current default of selection for a GDG when not specified .>>example <<When someone in-TSO - batch - Online specifies DSN=XYZ.ABC(+1) or G000V00 number is fine but when someone leaves off the GDG number..DSN=XYZ.AB...
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm 1 Not under consideration

SC01 abend with ARCH parameter of Cobol v5

Because of a current client demand, and its a contractual request, We need IBM to develop a usermod that prevents the SC01 abend in Cobol program compiled with the ARCH parameter executions in a less modern CPU.
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Adding TWS Variables to the JCL Syntax highlighting.

The jobname is a TWS variable and the RDz generates an error message "Incorrect JOB name.". Other variables in the jcl are OK. For example date variables in dataset names do not generate an error message. The problem described in this RFE is that ...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Standard mode of z/OS Debugger must support CODEPAGE option to show PL/I sources in Japanese correctlly.

When the customer debugs PL/I application using standard mode of z/OS debugger, remote debug UI shows garbled PL/I sources. Debug Tool compatibility mode supports an option to specify codepage of source files, so the customer can see correct PL/I ...
over 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Filter API's into ZCEE Server view

View all API's into ZCEE Server view must be "dangerous" and/or useless. Two ways to resolve that: 1- A user see only his API's (requires a notion of "belonging to a group")2- A user can filter his view like RDz or RTC
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration