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Please add the resolved queue name and MQ reason text to the BEVA0015E message

The use of the term "Transmit Queue" in Online Message BEVA0015E is misleading and derails operations staff troubleshooting. In the MQ Vernacular "Transmit Queue" is a special Queue associated with an MQ Sender Channel. For Error Message BEVA0015E...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Export/Import a VM fron one cluster to another cluster

Useful to move a workload from one cluster (maybe old) to another cluster (maybe new)
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Copy/Paste enablemnet for Remote console access KVM

Will nice to have the copy and past feature Remote console access KVM in CIC. Since this kind of console is used in case of problem/issue many time some solution can be found on manual or forum, and the solution commanda could be many and very lon...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

General codingrules missing in static analysis

Add 3 more coding rules regarding static analysis that we think should be in IDz by default. 1. Strings should only be moved to variables large enough to hold them without truncation https://rules.sonarsource.com/cobol/type/Bug/RSPEC-3921 2. Colla...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 3 Future consideration

Implement Code completion for DB2 objects such as tables and column names

Currently the Cobol Editor in IDz v16.x does not provide code completion on DB2 objects. For example: When creating a DB2 select statement within an EXEC SQL code block, it would be nice if the editor was able to provide code completion for DB2 ob...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

IMS Component partitioned by IMS_REGION

Currently we have many IMS regions and huge logs to be processed. It would be great if IZPCA provides a solution that we could process IMS logs in parallel with a entire IMS component petitioned by IMS_REGION.
10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add CMT option in the SUSPEND file

Hi When a SUSPEND request is issued from the line command, it is possible to add a comment to the request. When a suspend request id done through a line in the suspend file, we can specify for the resource only the scope and the removal condition....
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

DB2 statements not directly with commit

At SQL scripts to attack DB2, we need something to just see the affected rows, or to preview the results of an update/delete/insert statement but not directly commiting the data, as at the Spufi, with some option to check in order to have this pre...
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Future consideration

Auto reroute of shadows from z/OS to Primary MDM and BMDM on failover

Any shadows from z/OS to LINUX MDMs have to be manually rerouted from Primary to Secondary even if the applications operations have auto resart and auto reroute set on them.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Improved storage usage when using moves to change encodings

We are using the functions display-of and national-of to dynamically change between encodings. Like this: MOVE FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF ( FUNCTION NATIONAL-OF ( INPUT-DATA (1:INPUT-LENGTH), CHARSET-CCSID), 277) TO OUTPUT-DATA (1:EXPECTED-OUTPUT-LENGTH)...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

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