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Inclusion of GA Dates in current state inventory reporting.

This request is to include software version GA dates in the inventory reporting, to give clients a view of lifecycle trends (ie; dates GA and OOS), so that clients are better able to select target versions to obtain maximum benefit from the effort...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Delivered

Implement EXEC CICS EXTRACT STATISTICS POLICY SPI command

There is a new statistic record for policy that can be written to SMF using PERFORM STATISTICS RECORD POLICY, however there is no way to extract the statistics online. EXTRACT STATISTICS POLICY should be added to the SPI to match other statistics ...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Generate 'exit.' at the end when extracting code to section

We'd like to configure the behavior of ending a section, that had been created by "extract to section". E.g. generate a blank line and "exit." (or "continue.") in the end
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Delivered

Add "Exclude CSECT" to Load Module Compare

I would like to request the ability to exclude CSECTs by name to the Load Module compare.
about 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Same preview for content of variables when debugging

When Debugging a Programm, the user can inspect the variables in the Variables- and in the Montiors-View.In both views there are 2 previews for variables, one which is always visible and one which Shows the Content of the selected variable. Curren...
over 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

direct setting of paths in the settings an AD project without importing additional sources via an API

It's on:Currently, paths (e.g. to includes on the local server) are only set in the settings of an AD project using a batch process if the resources are imported from the local folder beforehand. The import process evaluates the information from t...

Annotations on AD projects

Currently, annotations can only be set and edited on physical resources such as programs, CICSTran, SQLTable, SQLField, CICSMap, IMSMessageDescriptor, IMSTransaction, IMSDBSegment and JCL.

PushToClient snippets

Currently,it is not possible to import automatically the snippets on all workstations RDz.We would like to do this with the PushToClient
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered

Enhance z/os Explorer and IDz JMON so that idle connections with no timeout are cleaned up

The JESMiner is not able to handle the case when the JMON TIMEOUT function is disabled (TIMEOUT = 0). In this situation, FEJJCNFG shows JMON's timeout is disabled withTIMEOUT=0. Because of this JMON will not kill idle threads. The JES miner is res...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Delivered

API Requester configuration server.xml vs ara file

We need zero server.xml modifications when deploying, updating and moving an API requester between environments:- Fully automatic deployment and update from an ara file, like we've with APIs and services, without necessity to create a section in t...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered