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Export in CSV of Control-M components

It is not possible to export the Control-M plan in CSV or Excel format Our need is to have two possible exports (CSV or Excel), this can be on the same file with two tabs:- Downstream links with the list of Jobs and their successors- Upstream link...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Support for NDM steps in JCL

Customer has 700+ NDM steps. And there are around 1000+ files which they send using NDM and needs analysis more frequently to trace it back. The analysis is more frequent and as they are feeds to other systems, understanding and including them in ...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Additional payload logging management capability - offload / archiving

The customer uses payload logging function in zCEE, however, the current fs logging interceptor only supports to rollover to a new file when hitting the size or duration limit. The customer suggested zCEE provide additional functionality in the pr...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration

PSB/DBD fallback using IMS catalog versioned objects

DBD/PSB objects fallback to use IMS catalog rather than PSBGEN/DBDGEN/catalog ACBGEN/IMPORT using backed up sources.
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 1 Not under consideration

CICS/TS - USS enhancements

In order to keep the USS files and programs synchronized with the LOAD LIBRARIES (LPA etc.) we currently have these options:1. Separate SMP/E environment for each stage (development, system test etc.). This requires PTFs to be applied for each sta...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow definition of fields in the filler segment of an IMS db without required DBR for catalog

We currently define segments in a Data Base Definition (DBD), along with a key field. The remaining segment length does not have data fields defined in the DBD. We define data fields in external copybooks. Therefore, there is no outage of the data...
about 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE - IDz Support for Creating the sar file for DB2 Rest Service

Currently the only way to create a z/OS Connect Service for a DB2 for z/OS REST Call can be accomplished is through the z/OS Connect Toolkit. It would be nice to be able to generate the sar file through IDz
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Selective suppression of dumps based on PSW location

Customers often suppress AP0001 abends in their System Dump code table because, by and large, they are for ASRA, AKEA, S0C4 or S0C1 in application programs. Unfortunately that also suppresses these dumps when they occur in DFH* modules. So, when r...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide highly efficient access to transaction cpu/specialty processor accumulated timings

Having requested information pertaining to specific fields found to contain accumulated cpu and specialty processor timings in the DFHTASN control block, I was informed that a detailed explanation of the management of these timings would not be fo...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Start AD functions from the Data Elements View in IDz

A developer currently has to copy the variable name and change the perspective (Application Discovery Browser) in order to then select all AD projects. Then the copied name has to be pasted and the analysis "variable usage" has to be started. We b...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration