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CICS CSD - Autoinstalled programs

Building the AD repository for a project does not support CICS Autoinstalled programs
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

The ability for CICS to capture data and graph into Grafana/Promethius.

We would like a similar capability that MQ supplies via GitHub that provides capabilities to format display data and allows you to graph it via Grafana/Promethius. This request would not be for a separate chargeable product but provided either in ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

IDz - Extend dataset 'search' capabilities

Hello In RSE perspective, it is not straight forward search to list the files like how we usually perform in 3.4 ISPF listing. Ctrl + F doesn't help much, however there is a locate option that works a bit within the filters. But we think this sear...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

IDz - Unsplit the program lines in the COBOL editor

Hello In the IDz test version (14.2.3.x or 15.0.x), if any component has unusual splitted lines of code in the source library, then formatting option in IDz editor doesn't unsplit the lines. Pls find a sample case as below ; ------Move tmp-x(2:4)t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Add new option 'FIND ONLY/REPLACE' in the IDz cobol editor

Hello, In the test IDz version (14.2.3.x or 15.0.x), there is a need to enhance find/replace option. When user wants to find and replace particular occurrences of a word, it wouldn't be possible in the existing 'find/replace' combination. For exam...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL - Introduce equivalent of conditional compilation in management of compilation options in SYSOPTF

Hi, Managing compilation options can be complex due to the multiplicity of contexts: batch, cics, db2, static call, dynamic call, etc. This complexity is increased when several versions of the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler must coexist with opt...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve the loading performance in CICS IA

When loading a huge data array from VSAM affinity files into DB2 database affinity tables, CIUAFFLD job takes long time to be processed.
over 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

installation of AD should check for java 8 64bit

Customer installs AD 6.0 and has not pre-installed correct mode of Java 8 (it is not 64bit) ... the installation script should detect this and halt installation
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Unable to pass headers for OAUTH2 apiRequester

Customer has an api requestor that is configured to use oauth2 but the JWT provider requires a scope parm and a http header Client-Application be sent. Looking to do this in the server.xml.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 6 Not under consideration