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Treat CPUTIME and COUNT in PROCLIM independent of each other in determining U240 Tran abend

Currently, a transaction can have a max time equal to the product of CPU-time-per-transaction and count as specified in the PROCLIM parm. This means that if the count needs to be adjusted for tuning purposes, it will have an impact to how long a l...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Include IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2.1 to ADCD stack

I'm z/OS System Programmer and I use ZDT Personal Edition and ADCD to learn about installations/configurations and test new functions in z/OS. ZDT is mainly designed for developing, but i think it is a very useful tool for System Programmers too. ...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Annotate ADDI Graphs

Provide the ability to annotate a chart - especially a CA7 Scheduler graph - with lines and comments.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

This is a test idea raised via the new Z Software portal

This is for testing purposes
almost 3 years ago in Record Generator for Java 0 Not under consideration

IDz headless Code Coverage daemon support CCS call to remove all cc files generated

Support the CCS REST API call to delete all the file generated by code coverage daemon. Currently only the .cczip file will be deleted.
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

WEB UI functions to show volumes and datasets being provisioned

Client is deploying Wazi Sandbox. During the "Restoring z/OS dataset" step of the provisioning, for any dataset that is duplicated, the provision process stops and request a manual intervention. This idea is a request to provide a function that sh...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Printing capabilities in EGL

As a programming language, It needs to have printing capabilities to send files directly to the printer (Server side & Client side(RUI)) with some printing features, e.g: -Silent mode, in case of printing server side-prompt & don't prompt ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Cursor methods on TUI forms

The methods must return the name and index of the field which holds the cursor. Example:cursorField string = form.getCursor();case (cursorField) when "NAME" ... when "CITY" ... when "ADDRESS_LINES" cursorFieldIndex int = form.getCursorIndex(); cas...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Use of JSSE in trust between zCEE and IMS Connect

To establish the trust between z/OS Connect EE and IMS Connect in order to use identity assertion, TLS Mutual Authentication needs to be implemented between the 2 started tasks. On the z/OS Connect EE side, the use of a standard Liberty SSL repert...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Methods on TUI fields

More methods on TUI fields are needed. E.g. is field protected, is field unprotected.In other words: If you can say "set field xx" then you should also be able to say "if (field is xx)". Some of the attributes, e.g. colors, can be grouped and it w...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration