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Ability to customize AD report/graphs selection

In the Analyze Client, there are a number of reports that our developers would never use (example: ADABAS reports) that always appear at the top of the list.It would be nice to be able to order that list and/or hide items on the list so that the r...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

3270 emulation in Developer for z systems cannot connect due to different HCE and RSED connections with both valid certificat

the 3270 Emulation in devloper for z Systems refuses the SSL connectivity, if the HCE Emulation Connection connects to a different Server than the configured RSED connectivity. Although both Connections do have valid certificates. The failure is, ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Add warning option when setting a DFSVSMxx LOCKTIME value

Currently when setting LOCKTIME in DFSVSMxx to set a timeout value, the options available for BMPOPT and MSGOPT are to either abend, or return a BD status code to the application. Neither are currently feasible because the application may not be a...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 28 Not under consideration

Add a LOCATE and FIND facilities to Syntax Checker

Since DFSPBxxx with the last IMS Versions has become a quite big Memeber, not always easy to navigate into, the availability of LOCATE and FIND funtions would help i.e. in finding a specific parameter. - Please change the visibility of this RFE to...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

support z/oS symbols in CL/supersession to maintain one runtime environmnt for several LPARS

to make the runtime environment available for LPAR specifics and not creating for each LPAR its own environment it would be more than useful to use the z/OS symbols in the Runtime datasets for setup Applications, terminals.
over 8 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to group remote systems and filters

Add ability to group filters and collapse and expand the groups in Remote Systems View.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the CICS design to access SMSVSAM in parallel.

We'd like to propose the following CICS design changes:1) Have a completely separate TCB or a pool of TCBs to process only the QUIESCE and UNQUIESCE SEND and RECEIVE elements. This TCB or pool of TCBs should never be used for OPEN and CLOSE reques...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

ZDT Webtools server Export/Import Images

We request a new enhancement :Ability to export an image localized on a Webtool Server (web1) to another WebTool Server( WEB2).This request is motivated by : - The need to secure our images on multiple Server.- Several problem encounters during mi...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Enable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changesEnable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changes

Enable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changesCurrently, when an API endpoint has new response fields added that an API Consumer does not need, z/OS Connect API Requester will start to fail unless its API Re...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Blockmode in IDz editors

In PL/I (and properbly Cobol) editors the blockmode-function is very slow if you select say 500-800 lines. If you pass about 1000 lines it will just hang IDz.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

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