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General zvdt support for Z/VM layer 3 vswitch

Layer 3 vswitch includes all capabilities of Layer 2 plus routing capabilities. All Z/VM customers running ZVDT would benefit from this
8 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Maintain standards currency with CICS Tooling Assistants

CICS Tooling Assistants (js2ls, ls2js, specifically) are an invaluable tool for those of us for whom z/OS Connect is too rich. Maintaining schema standards currency avoids manually adjusting vendor and service provider schemas to downlevel schema ...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

Allow multiple compute_disk_pool configurations

Currently ICIC only supports the use of a single DASD group via compute_disk_pool for local storage. We would like ICIC to support multiple DASD groups in order to allow users to provision persistent storage to a guest from these DASD groups.
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to Customize Columns on CICS Resource View/Package View Panels for display

Adding the functionality to customize searchable columns on the CICS CM Panels will help users expand their search based on additional resource definition fields (Example: Description field). This will save time in filtering of resource definition...
8 months ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Dependency scanner to use CSECT in BZUCFG to support when moduler-under-test is different from loadmodulename

If you perform zUnit testing on a program which is located in a load module which has a different name than the program name then DBB reads he BZUCFG incorrectly. The situation happens when testing statically called programs, or when the main prog...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

Allow multiple applications to create association data

Would like to have the capability for multiple applications to add data to the CICS association data. This could be in the form of a name value pair. This would allow multiple applications or monitors to flow data without interfering with each oth...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Improve SuperSession security at Logon with PassPhrases

This is to fix 2 Security issues with SuperSession:1- When using PassPhrases at Logon, the reaction is different depending on if the UserID exist or not. This allows someone to try all possible UserIDs and find the list of existing ones.2- When Lo...
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Build Selection Batch Command Line

The IBM Application Discovery Build Client allows us to Build a selection of entities.However, we can't do this with a batch command line.
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Allow ODBM synchronous data capture using third party exits

Today we are using the Precisely SQD product for IMS data capture replication. It captures changes and writes them to its own log stream (Synchronously, no IMS log records), then processes them after that (Asynchronously). They get control at the ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

IDz does not recognize variables used in "PROCEDURE DIVISION USING" clause that were defined in the WORKING STORAGE SECTION instead of the LINKAGE SECTION

Variables used in the "PROCEDURE DIVISION USING" clause have to be defined in the LINKAGE SECTION. If not, even if they are defined in the WORKING STORAGE SECTION, it ends with a compilation error on the mainframe "IGYPA3067-S Operand "REC-NSCERCH...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

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