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Add functionality to COPY command to only copy user data from 3270 screen and not protected field data.

When copying 3270 screen information to paste to another screen the COPY command should have an option to not copy protected fields and only copy user data fields. Ticket TS007753709 opened with support and it was suggested to submit a RFE.
about 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Cluster level view of systems (for z/OS Connect)

For resiliency, best practice is to run multiple production z/OS Connect servers in a group and this must be managed as a single entity. To support this, we need an overall view of how this service (as a cluster) is performing, and the ability to ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Planned for future release

TADZ - VIPA Support

Enable the TADZ STC HSIJANLO to bind to a VIPA to make this product Sysplex aware.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Planned for future release

Make additional Interpolation algorithms available to Fractal Forecasting

Make additional Interpolation algorithms available to Fractal Forecasting. Mark this one as important to the customer.Add additional interpolation algorithms - LINEAR, POLY2, and POLY3 – same as we do for SmartPath forecasting.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Create latest HOD package in Docker Container

Bureau of Fiscal Service is currently upgrading Host On Demand implementation and moving from AIX to RHEL and to the latest version of HOD.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Planned for future release

Add intercept of IMS AERTDLI calls

Add intercept of IMS AERTDLI calls. See case TS013086777. Thanks
over 1 year ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

RDz Debug Engine Command should support all commands supported by ISPF DT

I use Debug Tool as well as RDz Debug. The same commands available to a DT session should work via the Debug Console->Debug Engines Command field. My CMDS file has:AT ENTRY *; This allows me to step through subroutines easily.In DT, I can issue...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Support for BIFF8 and higher EXCEL file format specifications in IBM Personal Communications.

Currently IBM PCOMM supports BIFF (BIFF4 and BIFF5) for Data Transfer utility and Copy operations. PCOMM has to be enhanced to support higher EXCEL file formats.PMR 22610,999,760 was converted to case TS003171311.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Showing originating user for request from SMU in the netlog

We are in the middle of implementing SMU for our colleagues . To see if anyone is using SMU and if so, who is using it, I noticed that the netlog does not show the actual user for a request. For example I performed a move for a movegroup, using SM...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Planned for future release

Change requirement for one HLQ for the IMS RE runtime libraries

We have a shop standard where authorized libraries have a HLQ that is different from non-authorized libraries. In my case APFDA for authorized libraries, SYSPDA for non-authorized libraries. This is causing issues installing and using the IMS Data...
over 1 year ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release