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Completing occurrences via batch (WAPL, BCIT, etc ) should not delete predecessors without a warning or a special parameter to indicate that it is OK to delete predecessors

If occurrences are set complete via the ISPF dialog or from the DWC, there is a warning given if there are predecessors which are not completed. When doing the same thing via batch, the predecessors are just deleted which can make the current plan...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Improve IEBCOPY performance for PDS to PDS copies

The IBM Software Migration Project Office has customer migrations from CA PDSMAN to IBM products. The performance of IEBCOPY is critical for such migrations.
over 3 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

Decision/Branch Level Code Coverage

Currently, line level coverage is the most specific level of code coverage offered. This is comparable to statement coverage on other platforms. However, to really get a more complete indication of the level of coverage achieved by a testing suite...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

ADDI-Support for current version of PL/I

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the PL/I scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of IBM(R) Enterprise PL/I for z/OS.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Uncommenting and Commenting Lines in PL/I Editor

In the Eclipse there is the possibility to comment out individual lines of code or entire blocks of code using the shortcut "Ctrl + 7".It would make working with RTC easier if there was a shortcut for the eclipse-based development of PLI in RTC.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Collect transaction level performance data and correlate with trace for mainframe CICS transactions to help problem diagnose

Transaction level performance metrics data, like CPU consumption, file locks, or DB2 package information, for a CICS transaction are the most of key metrics during a problem determination use case. Collecting these kind of data and correlate with ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

MDS/ODL JDBC driver pathname

The MDS Driver is shipped with a date in the path, i.e:dv-jdbc-3.1.201803141024/dv-jdbc-3.1.201803141024.jar With every new JDBC driver, the pathname changes.This requires every user to change their JCL/scripts to point to the new JDBC driver path...
over 6 years ago in IBM Open Data Analytics for z/OS (IzODA) / Mainframe Data Service 0 Future consideration

View reports created by other users

in workload scheduler, under reporting, my earlier colleague had created some reports. as the owner was different, I am not able to view those reports. I would like to take your help to modify the owner of those reports to my name so that I will b...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

return status of each services/api in the zosConnect/apis or zosConnect/services call

Request is to include the "status" or "serviceStatus" in the zosConnect/apis or zosConnect/services call.This avoids having to call the underlying adminUrl or serviceUrl for each api/service to determine its status.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

ADDI to Discover Db2 Sequences

ADDIs source code analysis doesn't currently detect Db2 sequences. This requirement is to have Sequences detected and registered in the ADDI database.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration