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Session recording files maintenance

The product today creates session recording files without limitation. This force the customer to have an external process to clear older versions of theses files or risk with hard disk failure. Suggested here to add the ability to define history r...
3 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Infuse AI into the products to auto-discover customer environment and auto-configure most of the setups during a product installation.

Infuse AI into the products to auto-discover customer environment and auto-configure most of the setups during a product installation.
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow passtickets to be used on JDBC connection to Db2 for z/OS

Currently, Spark only allows a password to be used for a JDBC connection. Allowing the use of a passticket on the connection improves security (no need to store or send passwords) and improves the manageability of a customers environment. This cou...
3 months ago in IBM Z Platform for Apache Spark 0 Under review

Allow IEASYMxx member to read system variable context from IPLPARM member or SYS1.dataset file.

Allow IEASYMxx to ready system variable from file, or IPLPARM member
4 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Under review

z/OS IMS Online Application configuration within IDz client

Currently within IDz there are two ways of setting debugger configuration for Batch Applications: 1) z/OS Batch Application using property group 2) z/OS Batch Application using existing JCL However for IMS configuration there is no setting to setu...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 0 Under review

Default "Open/Browse" setting when opening members in a PDS

It would be useful for there to be an option under the properties of a library to set the default "open" action for its members. For example, within development libraries, users can set the default action to "Open" members when opening members. An...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

change default redirect to logoff.aspx

add the capability to change the default redirection to logoff.aspx from logoffprompt.htm. Examples: sending a postmessage to host from an iframe or redirection to another page.
4 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

Setting in IMS Service Provider to translate user IDs to upper case before sending them to IMS

When a z/OS Connect user generates a Base64 auth token with a RACF user ID containing lower case letters, the authentication and authorization checks in z/OS Connect will be successful, but those in IMS Connect or IMS may fail since the IMS Servic...
over 1 year ago in IMS 1 Under review

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