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z/OS IMS Online Application configuration within IDz client

Currently within IDz there are two ways of setting debugger configuration for Batch Applications: 1) z/OS Batch Application using property group 2) z/OS Batch Application using existing JCL However for IMS configuration there is no setting to setu...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 0 Under review

we have a large project with about 8.000 cobol sources. Trying to make software analyzer baseline crashes with java memory errors. Make it possible to create baseline for big projects

We want to make a baseline for the entire project so we can use this baseline for analysing cobol sources and do not get all problems over and over again.
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 0 Under review

Default "Open/Browse" setting when opening members in a PDS

It would be useful for there to be an option under the properties of a library to set the default "open" action for its members. For example, within development libraries, users can set the default action to "Open" members when opening members. An...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

change default redirect to logoff.aspx

add the capability to change the default redirection to logoff.aspx from logoffprompt.htm. Examples: sending a postmessage to host from an iframe or redirection to another page.
4 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

UKO: /ukebase/server.xml improvments

It would be easier to have the same timestamp in each log (joblog, syslog, messages.log, trace.log). Currently our zOS logs are in local time and the GUI logs are in UTC. Please add a variable to server.xml in /ukobase to set a timezone Another go...
4 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

Security Identity propagation from Websphere to IMS

Hi, we need to have the possibility to propagate the identity principal from WebSphere applicaiton server/Liberty on open side to IMS transaction call using IMS Connector. Similar to what already is permitted with CTG. Goal is to permit that the s...
4 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Under review

Change KCIPARSE to use the Configuration Manager RTEDEF defined variables

When using RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y , variables can be defined as System variable, or they may be defined in the RTEDEF(VAR$GLOB) and/or RTEDEF(VAR$lpar) members. When running the Configuration Manager (CM) GENERATE action, variables defined by the ...
4 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Request for Adding “luname” Field to Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) in IDz V16.0

In IDz V14.1, when connecting to the z/OS using the Host Connection Emulator (HCE), it was possible to specify the “luname” within the extended host connection properties. However, in IDz V16.0, when connecting to the z/OS using Remote Connection ...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review

Make parm ISSUE681=xx also available in an IMS/DC environment

Hi, Option ISSUE681=xx - which specifies the number of DFS681I messages per second within a batch or BMP region - is only available in a IMS DB/DC environment. Due to massive checkpoints in our IMS/DC system, we regularly experienced delays on IMS...
5 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

Enable the ability to run the COLLECT batch process of different components in parallel.

When a COLLECT process is executed, some DB2 resources are allocated that prevent processes that collect data for different components (CICS, DB2, MVS and so on) from being executed in parallel. If the COLLECT processes of different components cou...
6 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Under review

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