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Button switch hebrew/english

we have some problem with pcom to write in the same sentence in english and in hebrew the BID LTR or RTL is is difficult to use them and i think to work easier you must create a button at the top HEADER to swicth english to hebrew and the contrary...
about 2 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

It is very helpful for analyzing the issue independently

It is useful for all kinds of Systems programmer (CICS, DB2, MQ) to speed up the analysis their issues
4 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

Different methods to connect with IDZ Debugger

Our new VPN software is not functioning with the TCP connection or does not allow connectivity through the IP address/port number. Looking for alternative methods of connecting IDZ Debugger session back to the user when TCP connection is unavailable.
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 0 Under review

Provide API to obtain IMS Restart time

Our applications are critical to large company telecommunications systems and we supply a support screen via an IMS 3270 TP transaction which shows system environment information, including installed release levels, IMS Catalog Status, and other z...
4 months ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Under review

Dynamic Domain Assignment for NetView Workstations

Objective: Enable the capability to dynamically update the domain assignment of a NetView workstation. This functionality should override the existing assignment set via the System Automation (SA) policy, allowing for temporary workload redistribu...
2 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Under review

Add Kafka to Open Enterprise Foundation

The open source tool Kafka is increasingly becoming a common platform for Z tools. We know of Omegamon, Common Data Provider, IBM Z Anomaly Analytics. The idea is to add this therefor to the Open Enterprise Foundation product.
5 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 4 Under review

Enhance the Configuration Manager validation step to warn about undefined symbolics

With RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y, when a (user or system) symbolic is used in a &SYSNAME. configuration, and that symbolic is not defined in either the VAR$&SYSNAME. or as a system symbolic. Examples would be: RTE_TCP_PORT_NUM "&NONE_EXIST_...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Add support for MFA and Yubikey in DB2 for z/OS Connections

DB2 for z/OS has added basic MFA support. However, customers are integrating with more of the options provided by z/OS MFA. We need to expand this usage to accommodate customers configurations. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.0?topic=yubikey...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 0 Under review

Session recording files maintenance

The product today creates session recording files without limitation. This force the customer to have an external process to clear older versions of theses files or risk with hard disk failure. Suggested here to add the ability to define history r...
2 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

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