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Promotion of Remote Syntax Check

We need a visibility enhancement for the Remote syntax check function in order for the developpers to see it fastly and use it more than what they are currently do.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 5 Future consideration

PARSE support for CSV files

Some of our systems are required to ingest CSV (Comma Separated Variable) files from other platforms. Presently we use SORT or other utility to convert the file to fixed format before passing it to COBOL for processing. In a few cases the COBOL pr...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE - Support for Multiple Versions

z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit (3.0.60 - current version) along with z/OS Connect EE 3.0.24, doesn't support Multiple version Naming for IMS or CICS APIs created. Though there are different fields available for 'Name' and 'version', while generating ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from zCEE, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from zCEE and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from zCEEChannel. Have zCEE and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Co...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Functionality already exists

Make zAPM Containers sysplex compliant

Please allow for CICS regions on 1 LPAR to connect to containers on another LPAR if the container on the same LPAR should become unavailable/experience issues or are unable to connect to the DG. It would seem dataspaces are used currently which is...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Data Classification Scanning Tool/Application

Please develop a tool/application that does the following: -Scans datasets across the entire environment--IMS, DB2, * etc-Scans datasets for configurable patterns--Example: Scans for xxx-xx-xxxx-Aggregates names of datasets found with patterns for...
about 6 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

User or Tool configured data to accompany a dataset

Please develop functionality to allow a "flag/mark" on a dataset that can then be reported by zSecure or other tools, this mark would be user configurable or configurable by the tool mentioned in the associated RFE. Ideally this could be a dataset...
about 6 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

Key management support for Saleforce Cloud

US Bank interested in possibility of integrating UKO for z/OS with their Salesforce cloud environment for external key management.
11 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

TPFUG: Enhance z/TPF Run Time Metrics Collection (zRTMC) Starter Kit to use Redhat Podman instead of Redhat Docker

Redhat is not supporting Docker in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 8. It is replacing it with Podman. Docker is only supported below version RHEL 8. The z/TPF Run Time Metrics Collection (zRTMC) Starter Kit uses Docker but not Podman thus ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Crosshair Cursor in Host Connection Emulator

Outside of RDz the ISPF interface we used had cross hairs on the cursor. In RDz the Host Connection Emulator does not have this functionality. I have had many requests for this to be added, so I am submitting an RFE
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

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