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improve UX of credential dialogs for linux/zos they are very similar

Make more visible / aparant to the user which credentials are you asking for, for example: replace the gray hint of User ID field from "Enter user ID" to "root" or "ibmuser" based on the type of credentials. Because there are two types of credenti...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

TCPIP Session identification

Problem: When a TCP/IP session is established with a CICS region there is nothing in any of the CICS logs to indicate that this has happened. There are messages generated when an error occurs during session establishment (such as DFHWB0732) but no...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Increase container address space connections to a maximum of 1000 say

I believe the current maximum of 400 connections is to small. In some LPARs we have over 800 CICS regions. I know you can start a second zAPM container in the LPAR but it would be nice to have a start-up parameter to state the maximum with a defau...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS ASYNC API - USERID option for RUN TRANSID

The request is to add 'USERID' option to 'RUN TRANSID' CICS async API command to be able to start the child transaction in a different security profile.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Choice of view-level Page size for ALL workspaces as opposed to setting/resetting it for each Workspace

Currently each Workspace has the View-level page size at a default of showing 100 rows; you can reset that to ALL ROWS (or another number of rows) for each workspace. In our environment we would like to have the option to change that default setti...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 4 Functionality already exists

ZD&T Fixed/Term License Renewals are not clearly visible in LKC, nor are the licenses available until the day after the current/existing licenses expire.

The problems: 1) The renewal Sales Order shows in LKC, but simply says “No licenses available for this Order” with no indication that this will ever change. 2) There is guaranteed ZD&T License outage which will vary depending on the customer l...
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Add built-in support for Hash Tables

It should support the following basic operations: - Create - Insert - Delete - Search
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for Tree data structures

Modern languages have built-in support for data structures such as linked-list (singly, doubly, circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees (Binary, Red-Black, B, …), … There are many types of tree data structures. At first, basic binary trees should be supp...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for Stacks and Queues

Modern languages have built-in support for data structures such as linked-list (singly, doubly, circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees (Binary, Red-Black, B, …), … It should support the following basic operations (for Stacks): - Push - Pop - Peek - Leng...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for linked-list (singly, doubly, circular, doubly-circular)

Modern languages have built-in support for data structures such as linked-list (singly, doubly, circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees (Binary, Red-Black, B, …), … It should support the following types: - Singly linked lists. - Doubly linked lists. - Ci...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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