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Provide a java.security file to support z crypto h/w

Provide a mechanism to enable crypto hardware providers (IBMJCECCA and IBMJCEHYBRID) on z/OS without requiring additional configuration of the java.security properties file.
over 3 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

CALLEXIT for checking Call Parameter Usage

It would be good to have a kind of "Call-Exit", which is called every time the compiler see a CALL Subroutine, but also "Procedure Division" or ENTRY-Statement.So we could build a dictionary for all Calls, knowing which program calls which subprog...
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Restore functionality to allow allocation of new dataset in batch JCL from 3.3 dataset copy menu item.

To have reusable JCL / to help new users with examples of File Manager batch JCL allocating new datasets when using the DSC (dataset copy) function.
10 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Please consider adding a monitoring field / 110 record field to track CPU time consumed by TCB switches caused by code not being threadsafe

Considering that an effort to migrate a customer's suite of applications to be threadsafe can be difficult, time-consuming, and therefore expensive and risky, it would be very beneficial to have a mechanism the help objectively quantify the potent...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer needs consistent number decimal places in summary views

CICS Explorer needs to display averaged values in an aggregated view with a consistent number of decimal places. This could be a fixed or user specified value. Potentially if ALL average values in a field are exact numbers no decimal places could ...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

IBM z/OS Debugger 64bit Support

・Decrease E-private usage when taking code coverage of processes which runs many PL/I programs When we take code coverage, E-private usage for the address space used by z/OS Debugger increases depending on the number of running program.Therefore w...
about 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Allow symbol substitution in CICS reading the LE runtime options

Provide symbol substitution in CICS process the LE Runtime Options module to allow for abstraction of certain values outside the module. For instance, the CEE_DMPTARG value specifying a USS Directory Path in the JVMProfile can then be substituted ...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Package Software Analyzer as OCI to use with zCX

We would like to be able to run Software Analyzer inside a container as part of our pipeline. It would likely be inside zCX but in the end it could also be on x86. This will ultimately depend on the build environment our customer uses. We are vers...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

RDz - Editors Compare results sharing and save

In RDz Editors , Compare is much better than what we have had on the Host systems SUPERC or File Manager compare , especially for the source code comparisons. We would like to have the ability to save the comparison results to a file, which we cou...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

JSON support for IMS PA FP Region Occupancy report (FPRGORPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS Region Occupancy report (DD FPRGORPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to find ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration