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Possibility to add Menu Manager written functions to the "tool bar" at the top

Possibility to add Menu Manager written functions to the "tool bar" at the top .And to the favorit "bar"
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Include the Liberty dispatch time within z/OS Connect SMF and monitor data (e.g. Omeagamon for JVM and OEM vendors just as Dynatrace)

Without the Liberty Dispatch time we have had instances of large amounts of time in our API call chain being unaccounted for. We had a recent incident with IBM (TS010301362) to assist in identifying what appeared to be a random 5 second spike in r...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Cipher file name on com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile parm of Toggle file

Hi, Witht he CICS TS61, i see new toggle file parm com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile={true| false } This parm forces all the outbound calls to use the defaultciphers.xml. We already maintaining a custom cipher file for all inbouds as it is possib...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Remove obsolete CMAS from CICSPlex

Remove obsolete CMAS from storage in CICSPlex scope.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CSL Environment startup parameters values should be displayed at IMS and CSL environment startup time.

The contents of IMS Proclib Member DFSDCxxx , CSL Proclib Member DFSCGxxx , SCI Proclib Member CSLSIxxx , OM Proclib Member CSLOIxxx and RM Proclib Member CSLRIxxx should be displayed at IMS and CSL environment Tasks startup time in the same way t...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 6 Not under consideration

Call Perform Hierarchy from Program Control Flow

You show a Cobol programm in the Programm Control Flow View. Please add an entry to the contextmenu to link this view to the Perform Hierarchy View. Something like "show this section in the Perform Hierarchy". The two views show different but cloe...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

SSRANGE suboption to check for a modified length resulting in a negative length

A new SSRANGE suboption is needed that should be useable also in production.This suboption should create extra checking code only if a "modified reference" (that modifies the default length of a variable) involves a variable value. In this case th...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Improve performance of Code Review in z/OS batch mode

Performance of Code Review in Batch needs to be improved. Today the performance is not sufficient. Each time a new JVM is started. When it is running as part of the build it is critical to ensure throughput and cpu consumption.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

LPEX editor should hilight debug lines depending on setting

Similar to the COBOL editor, LPEX should highlight debug lines (lines with 'D' in column 7) depending on the existence of the 'With Debugging Mode' phrase of Source Computer command.COBOL editor highlights these as active code or as comment lines,...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Prevent a performance impact while displaying Shared Temporary Storage using CPSM

If CPSM is used to display a very large Shared Temporary Storage , CICS scans the entire Shared Temporary Storage, causing a performance impact . My idea is to have CICS "throttle" or "segment" its scan , allowing other work to progress avoiding ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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