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Add LUName and certificate support to TN3270 Basic Client Support

Currently it seems that SuperSession TN3270 Basic Client Support does not support LUName specification. Adding support for LUName would allow for connection to OSA console ports or to specific applications on a TCPIP stack. Adding certificate supp...
about 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Enhanced JCCQ monitoring

IBM zWS issues message EQQZ106W for JCCQ, for example EQQZ106W 012 % OF QUEUE JCCQ IN USE If the trend is increasing, zWS will issue more EQQZ106W messages, but if it's decreasing or dropped below the threshold, we never know. There needs to be a ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IMS transactions abends info in the e3270ui

We need in the e3270ui a workspace where we could see information about abended transactions and abend details including process region, abend code, transaction name, abend date/time,..
about 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Enhance the DBB User Build Information popup

When a user build finishes, IDz shows a popup window which states: "DBB User Build is complete for <name-of-the-source-file> Click Details to see the complete build log." This information doesn't provide any valuable information to the devel...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

PL/I Formatter doesn't work if file is UTF-8

PL/I-Files with UTF-8 (e.g. german Characters)
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Altering datasets with IBM ZOAU

Today, Python Z Open Automation Utilities provide a lot of functionality for dataset tasks like create, delete, copy, rename and so on.Actually one important use case is to alter a dataset’s management class. On z/OS this can easily be done by i.e...
almost 3 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

JOB LOG MONITORING SUPPORT FOR USING WILCARD (*) IN ANY MESSAGE STRING

Job log monitoring code supports the use of a wildcard (*) as part of the filter criteria. Job log monitoring however only allows this to be used as the beginning of a search string. Example of supported definition: DUMMY :JLM_OFFSET=0JLM_DDNAME=S...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Explorer SSL click box option for CTG Explorer Connection - utilizing AT-TLS into CTG

As CICS Explorer implements, Provide SSL Click box for the Stats API CTG connection, in Explorer. The Company site uses At-TLS on z/OS; the Company is looking at requiring all connections to use SSL. Explorer SSL connection to the CTG would be tra...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Create POST Query via JOBNAME in REST API Offering for IBM zWS

The REST API for zWS needs a POST command query that is primarily driven by the JOBNAME as in PANEL ID EQQASELP. This query should present all the properties/attributes of the job.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IZOA-CWS- create team-based alerts, instead of individual alerts

Hi IBM, we have a customer that is looking to create team-based alerts, instead of individual alerts. This means that, anyone defined as a team member to IZOA, can browse/edit the alerts created by their team. We don't want to use a shared RACF ID...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Future consideration