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Take Vector Registers into account in the Debug Tool's "Registers"-View

I am missing the possibility to view the vector registers when debugging an assembler program in batch using Debug Tool. The "Registers"-View from the "Debug"-Category should make the vector registers available for display and changes in their ful...
about 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Omegamon z/OS - Sum of z/OS fields

We use some panels in Omegamon TEP to monitor our environment, specifically the CP consumption on our z14. We have a problem understanding the total machine consumption because the physical % CP and overhead % are separated and we can't put them t...
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Make upper/lowercase conversion possible in YAML override file.

We are using substrings of symbols (e.g. CICS_APPLID) in our resource overrides. Example (APPLID=XCICO): - urimap: - selector: name: GERARD overrides: path: "/test-{{CICS_APPLID[0::1]}}/of/gerard" This resolves in: /test-X/of/gerard However, most ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Menu Manager output dialog persistence

Allow user to perform other activities in IDz while the Menu Manager output dialog is displayed. Currently, if there are results shown in the output dialog that the user needs to reference for other activities, users need to close the dialog befor...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

CICS Explorer Event binding editor import data structure should support all valid COBOL picture strings

CICS Explorer 5.5 Event Binding editor cannot successfully import a COBOL language structure that contains an embedded '.' (decimal point) character in a zoned decimal field. Example:05 WS-COST PIC ZZZ.99.Such a picture string is valid in COBOL 6 ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

More granularity to secure CP work station over and above work station name.

We would like more granularity regarding the available sub-resources for altering CP work station attributes. The current level of protection is the work station name only.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CL/SuperSession: Change RACROUTE Calls to GLOBAL=YES

*** Note: This is for "CL/SuperSession"; I was unable to locate this product in the drop-down boxes *** Please change RACROUTE calls to use GLOBAL=YES instead of GLOBAL=NO (or provide a new PARMLIB option to control this), so that SAF calls are pr...
about 7 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Allow limited scope surrogate permissions for CICS

Allow for a surrogate permission, such as *.DFHSTART with access of READ, to be limited in scope to a CICS transaction, program, or both. Such granularity in allowing a surrogate permission is not available today.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

ability to throttle connections per client IP

Ability to throttle CM threads from the same IP address. We have some instances where a client grabs large numbers of connections with long timeout duration, that block other users from entering the gateway. If could throttle the number; analogous...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Display if the JOBSUMSSION is active or not by a batch

To display if the JOBSUMSSION is active or not by a batch job
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration