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Add Visual and Logical Text Layer in DB2 properties for IDz 16.x

Hi, For Hebrew users (or other languages that write from right to left), there is a need to read the SQL results in Visual Text Layer, otherwise the data is displayed in reverse order. We can't find the Text Layer option on Default BiDi Settings i...
7 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

CARMA Hyperlink to DSN from PRINT ELEMENT

Currently when a request is made to PRINT ELEMENT and RUN IN FOREGROUND is selected the user is presented with the results and a Target DSN . There is no facility to either click on a hyperlink for the DSN nor even copy the DSN.
11 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

PL/I support for Kafka SDK

Many customers use PL/I on Z. It would be good to have Kafka SDK support available to this language in addition to already available COBOL & C languages
6 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 0 Submitted

Adding UTF-8 support to the CARMA repositories view

In the CARMA repositores view you can view and edit source files stored in Endevor. However some sourcetypes are in UTF-8 (in our case wsdl's and xsd's) but on the moment sources in UTF-8 cannot be viewed or editted because it is not supported by ...
18 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Make dynamic resource templates assignable to a system/sysplex so that templates are not shown on systems where we don't want them used

Dynamic resource templates should have an option to only deploy them to a designated system/sysplex, currently all templates are deployed to all systems in the environment. Currently a user can create a resource that is not capable of running on t...
7 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Enhance IBM JZOS API to throw an exception when a Java application tries to read a corrupted VSAM dataset

As part of an application conversion from Assembler to Java, we've found an issue related to error handling where the JZOS API does not handle well. In our case it is related to accessing a corrupt VSAM file, and we've seen the same outcome when r...
14 days ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add a shortcut to get to queue details quicker

When we are on the workspace KOBSMQ, can you please add a pastpath option Q to get us to directly to workspace KMQQUTAS.
8 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Submitted

When looking at transaction IO and the transaction touched MQ, then I would like to be able to get to the MQ queue definition in the MQ monitor from the CICS transaction history

When we look at CICS transaction history and specifically transactions touching MQ, then in the history we can find queue stats. When we place a S next too the queue name on workspace KCPTDCMS, we would like to see an additional shortcut to allow ...
8 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Other 0 Submitted

Add Java 21 support for all Developer for applicable z/OS EE servers and clients

This would allow IBM software to take advantage of new Java features and security updates not present in earlier versions.
18 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 0 Submitted

Support recording from both batch and IMS TM

When recording testdata for a submodule/program that could be included in both a batch and IMS TM program you are forced to choose one or the other since all recordings after is made with the same method. And you want to keep all tests for a modul...
18 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

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