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Japanese language support of FM eclipse plug-in

System: core banking systemActor: developers of core banking system applicationsDescription: MUTB(Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Bank) is migrating its developer tools to ones based on Eclipse (eg. IDz, ADDI, etc). And MUTB would like to use FM with eclipse...
about 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Is a defect

Add new fields or change data type of fields that are in STCKE format to something more consumable

Fields TIME_ZC_ENTRY, TIME_ZC_EXIT, TIME_SOR_SENT, TIME_SOR_RECV were recently added to the ZDS tables for SMF record type 123 (PTF UI82260). The STCKE (CHAR(16)) format is difficult to work with and convert to a GMT or local time in Db2 queries. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

Different methods to connect with IDZ Debugger

Our new VPN software is not functioning with the TCP connection or does not allow connectivity through the IP address/port number. Looking for alternative methods of connecting IDZ Debugger session back to the user when TCP connection is unavailable.
4 months ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Increase ITOMWeb the 40 character limitation to 100 characters in the password dialog box.

RACF currently supports 100 characters for passphrases and allowing ITOMweb to match this limit aligns them with this RACF limitation. This would allow users to have a secure password / passphrase created and used by all of our IBM products.
4 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Add support for Aqua 3.3.

Currently, users who have migrated to IDz 16.0.3 are missing a critical piece of previously existing productivty tooling - the IMS Explorer integration. It would be beneficial to have the tooling updated to support the latest version before versio...
12 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Planned for future release

Enhance the setting UI of Remote Connection Emulator (RCE)

Now there are 2 place that can configure the connection parameters (host / port, etc) in the RCE - the "Host properties" tab at the bottom - the "Session properties" button on the upper right corner Users are always getting confused for how / wher...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

Copy a binary file between different remote systems or local and remote system

The idea is to allow copying sequencial PDS's or PDS's members with binary data from one remote system to a different remote system and between the local and remote system in the IDz IDE
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer 3 Not under consideration

allow more than 1 DASD to be specified in RTE_PDS2_VOLUME for PDSV2 datasets

The current RTE_PDS2_VOLUME parameter only allows "ONE" VOLSER to be specified as the target DADS for allocating PDSV2 datasets. But, (1) not all customers are using SMS to allocate PDSV2 datasets (2) in case if customer installs a full suite of Z...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Customer would like to have DataPower support for resume Tpipe. Have Front side Handler for ICON (Resume Tpipe support)

Customer applications are using ISRT ALTPCB and Datapower only supports ICAL and customers have to revise applications. It is a bottleneck to deploy Datapower to customers . It would be awesome if Datapower can support Resume Tpipe and nothing wil...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Multiple MQ monitoring subsystems in an lpar

Currently if any maintenance hits the 3 lmods concerned with the subsystem interface AGMQSTBC/AGMQSTBX/AGMQSSIN we have to either stop all ZAPM activity across that entire image, AGMQ TERM for any MQ regions where monitoring is active, stop CICS r...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration