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Allow copying the contents of files containing null characters

Currently, when a user copies the contents of a file by pressing ctrl+shift+a and then ctrl+shift+c, the expected behavior would be to get the entire contents of the file in your clipboard, likely replacing any nonprintable whitespace characters w...
6 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Submitted

Reporting spool(PUT) statements at compile time to avoid unnecessary performance issues on runtime

Spool statements using on test phase can be forgotten during production transition. This will cause unnecessary performance degredation. So, PUT statement usage can be reported during compile time. Compiler message can be displayed different messa...
12 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
3 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

Add support for OTMA transaction expiration for IFP regions

IMS transaction can be defined to expire OTMA messages to prevent the use of resources for messages that are waiting too long to be processed. For transactions that run in MPP regions, there are three types of checks that IMS does to see if the tr...
about 1 month ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

Customers would like to be able to 'extract' metric listing from within IntelliMagic

The search has good capability to cross reference and find reports and fields (metrics) that IntelliMagic reports on, but since there are so many variables available in the database and tables, customers would like to see all of them in one place....
7 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

ASID needed as condition item in IF-THEN statement

With the IF-THEN statement we often process messages that are intercepted by NetView Automation. To evaluate the message, there are several condition items available. However, if a specific task that has been started several times under the same j...
7 days ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Submitted

Request FastPath solution pack to support ZIIP processor

Customers use FP solution pack to run routine jobs like 'Pointer Checker report' , usually consume a lot of IO and CPU time if there are many DBs. If workload can offload to ZIIP processor, it should relief CPU constrain and shorten job execution ...
7 days ago in IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS / All components 0 Submitted

Availability to set an application or operation deadline using either +x Calendar day or +x Working day

The deadline offset is defaulted to Working day and may be overriden using OPERDALL parameter in the BATCHOPT when running Long Term plan maintenance. That parameter is global and not targeting specific operations.
16 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Suppress DFHHC0801W repeated messages from CICS LOG

This message is being generated every 30 min, which does not make much sense, it could be sent one per day or only once after startup, I dont need this info to be checked every 30 min as CESN sign on programs are stable, we only change it if we do...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM definitions.

Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM delete/define definitions for IMS physical database datasets.
about 1 month ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

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