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Create IIDR plugin for TDS/IZPCA

The z/OS Capture agent for IIDR (aka IBM CDC) has the ability to cut performance metrics as SMF records. However there is no 'off the shelf' facility to store these records for subsequent analysis. Both TDS and IZPCA have DB2 backend databases to ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

New ZDECB IO option to display database access details for ECBs on Find or File type SVC calls

Current ZDECB OLD only displays FARF5 address in the far right column and remains blank if the FIND or FILE SVC is for a 16 character FARF6 file address, this suggestion introduces that information in a new display format ZDECB IO together with re...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Endpoint Descriptor - New Connection Error Threshold Element

Allow customer-specific settings to define at what point (counter) errors experienced during the endpoint descriptor processing will force an automated system undeploy of the failing endpoint descriptor.
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

save more eclipse view preferences

We're facing the fact, that some preferences for views are not saved when closing and reopening the IDz client. For example there are views that do keep the size and order of their columns whereas other views don't. Or there are views that have th...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Omit low-valued numerics: New advanced output option for z/OS Connect services.

We want to have a new service advanced output option like "Omit low-valued numerics". Or we want to have the "Omit fields with uniform byte values 0x00" advanced output option to take effect on numeric fields as it does on non-numeric field ? It n...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Change IWS Reporting of User Abends as Hex Values to true User Abend Decimal Values

User abends are often bigger than 3 numbers and error codes in IWS are 4 digits. The first digit for a User error is "U" to show it's not a condition code, but now there are only 3 digits for a 4 digit code. So, IWS turns the decimal number to a h...
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

IDZ is unable to use file manager to copy files between sysplex /lpars when MFA is enabled. See Sev2 Case TS016140826 for additional info.

all developers using IDZ in a multiple sysplex / lpar environment.
8 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance ITM to use 64-bit memory

In large environments with many nodes it is possible for ITM to overrun the 31-bit memory allocation causing abends in Remote TEMS started tasks on z/OS. Please enhance ITM to use 64-bit memory as a means to avoid this memory overrun in situations...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add blocking of edition of the sequence number zone in Cobol editor

In COBOL Editor for edition of programs, it is impossible to inactivate the edition in the left sequence number zone (columns 1 to 7). This option exists in ISPF editor (TSO) and in LPEX editor (NUM COB).In Cobol Editor, even if we unnumber left (...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 8 Future consideration

Using existing Credentials in CICS Connection Test option of CTG Explorer

It could be a good idea to associate to each CTG Connection a credential as its done in other Connections (CMCI, FTP, z/OSMF...) when you go to a CICS Connection Test instead of having a unique entrance of User & Password to all CTG's defined
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration