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z/TPF zMQ support for multiple MQ Connection Names to Multi-Instance (MI) MQ Servers

1. Z/TPF currently generally needs to interact with Multi-Instance (MI) distributed MQ Clusters through a Virtual IP Address (VIP) and Load Balancer or similar abstracting infrastructure. 2. This is because z/TPF does not support multiple MQ Conne...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Mass renaming of projects by command line

We need to have a command line for renaming projects in bulk instead of going through Build Configuration and renaming projects one by one.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

idletimout statistics

Please provide the ability to display the idletimeout value and the number of idletimeout counter for the display; also in explorer. The ability to view this information not available in the product. The idletimeout value can be viewed in the .ini...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Simplify verification of occurence/operation status after performing a CP REFRESH (dialog option 9.5) by having an available copy of the pre-refresh files on a separate controller

Currently it is very difficult to get all the occurrences and operations in the current plan (CP) into the correct status after it is necessary to perform a REFRESH of the long term plan (which deletes the current plan). In fact it is so difficult...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Further methods in generated classes

I was building a proof of concept system for an internal project using JZOS Record Generator, and ended up writing a few static helper functions that it would be nice to have inside the class, namely a constructor from String and an equals method....
over 1 year ago in Record Generator for Java 1 Future consideration

Improve its forecasting to encompass increases to workloads leading to and retreating from the event being measured

IZCPA can detect workload statistics data significant changes and use it as a prediction factor to increase the accuracy of prediction.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Compile warning when using COMP-5 larger than 9 digits

When using COMP-5 variables many developers are not aware of the performance impact of using COMP-5 with variables defined longer then 9(9).Therefore we would like a warning added to the rules(nolaxperf) option, that will indicate this, and recomm...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Syntax Check Facility in RTC-Userbuild to support error feedback

The Syntax Check Facility for user build works for the setup, when the input file to the compiler is also defined as the input of the translator. As soon as the client uses a translator running a preprocessor resolving macros in a dedicated step, ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Future consideration

Provide library javax.smartcardio

requires support for javax.smartcardio in IBM JDK 8.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Allow current plan to be automatically rebuilt with correct status information after a refresh of the plan (dialog option 9.5)

Currently it is possible to recreate the current plan from the long term plan after a CP refresh, with loss of all status information. However many customers add most of their worklad dynamically, and dynamically added occurrences are not handled ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration