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Integration of an automatic check after a build / make

The idea is the automatic generation of a check after a build or a make for the administrator of AD (in MS-DOS command and GUI AD Build Client).
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support for SQL statements in in-stream data or control cards used by DB2 utilities in JCL

Tesco have JCL that executes SQL statements against DB2 tables via DB2 utilities. SQL statements are processed as SYSIN either as in-stream data, or in Control Card DSN. This information is currently not analysed, leading to incomplete information...
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

zLDA user log from JES Spool does not work when batch jobs are offloaded from JES to an archival product like "SAR".

Large MF (Enterprise) shops like CITI immediately offload batch for archival -- without this support the "user logs" from Spool to Splunk is not working for us. Our developers will not add VSAM ESDS files to batch jobs -- they will move forward a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Avoid problems with G-Trigger and TSO-Option "Input field pad"

When you use Trigger g and have a TSO-Option "Input field pad" other than B(lank) or N(ull) your trigger will not work as the padding character is suffixed to the entered sessionid. For example /gtso will be interpreted as /gtso____ if the "Input ...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add Choice of CodePage

When we go through the Personalize my Workspace wizard, a new page Set The Codepage would be really helpful rather than having to remember to change it later.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Delete Support for High Availability Option

The High Availability Option of IBM CL/SUPERSESSION should support the ability to push deletions of NAM and TDB database records across instances of Supersession.
over 11 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

PL/I parser support for MACROs

PL/I parser issues warnings in the editor if there are MACROs within the INCLUDEs
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration

missing data access support for carma

working with carma elements in carma view/search . there is no option to use DATA access support,no hover, or content assist is suggested for any sql code in EXEC SQLstmt.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Need mechanism for recovering isolated CMAS without restart

The ability to:1) Recover an isolated CMAS without having to restart the entire CMAS address space.2) The ability to tune/configure the timeout interval that leads to CMAS isolation in order to avoid having these events occur.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Not under consideration

Application Model API for IWSz

API available on the DWC installed on Z system with the URL hostname:portname/twsz/# does not contain Model API for Application when there are available with the Distributed IWS We'd like to have this model available, for IWSz as it is for the Dis...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

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