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Create a New FMID to install JAVA interface within IBM HourGlass for z/OS

Currently, the way the product is packaged FMID HAD5710 fails to APPLY when ordering it as a CBPDO via Shopz. RELFILE: IBM.HAD5710.F1 (contains)NAMEAGG1DCSIAGG2RECVAGG3ALCSAGG4DDEFAGG5APLYAGG6ACPT --END-- It fails to bring members: AGG35ALC and AG...
over 1 year ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

ANALYZE command

The following restriction should be removed (excerpt from Debug Tool, Reference and Messages Version 11, Chapter 5, Debug Tool Commands): The ANALYZE command displays the process of evaluating an expression and the data attributes of any intermedi...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

For the zAPM Openshift-hosted components, add support for externally-vaulted secrets data such as via Hashicorp Vault for environments where local secrets use is not permitted.

This would be useful for compliance/controls requirements where local Openshift secrets are not permitted. Managed secrets such as externally-vaulted secrets data with access controls are one example of a compliant solution. Benefit is to allow ac...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Record CICSPlex SM WLM routing decision to CICS SMF for post processing

CICSPlex SM Workload management should record routing algorithm decisions to SMF for post processing by products like CICS Performance Analyzer. In addition to having the capability to record routing decisions to SMF, customers should have the fle...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

z/OS 2.1 JCL-Variables GET/SET via COBOL Program

It would be nice, if a COBOL Program could set or get an JCL-Variable, because of exploiting the new z/OS V2.1 Variable Handling.This could bring some benefit for larger Batch-Applications with many Steps and Jobs.
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Public API for Application Discovery Parser and Impact Analysis

Application Discovery is good at understanding the overall mainframe application platform. It creates a repository of parsed mainframe components and also cross linkages and dependencies. Since Application Discovery parses the COBOL program and st...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

visualize mapping of resources to groups to lists to regions

Provide a visualization of the relationship between RDO resources, groups, lists and CICS regions
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Make CICS Explorer "Managed Windows" View Scope Behaviour consistent with Regions View

CICS Explorer view Managed Regions shows the CPSM status of defined CICS regions in the CICS Plex with details such as whether connected, CPSM level and which CMAS they are connected to. The context of this view does not always change when selecti...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

PL/1 Unit Tests

We want to unit test PL/1 moduls (also internal procedures). This would be possible by adding additional code to a module with a generator I wrote. The problem by doing this is that the source code tested would be not the same than the one deploye...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Support resource in different groups in CSD parser

ADDI CSD parser to support CICS resource defined in different groups.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration