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Provide functionality to view HEX format for a full screen.

Many of our applications rely on binary data and HEX bitmaps to be analyzed. ISPF allows for developers to see an entire screen of data in HEX format. IDz, does not appear to provide this same capabillity. This is hindering developers from migrati...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Move Fastpath Lookaside Buffers out of ECSA

Currently VSO lookaside buffers live in ECSA. For users with large amounts of highly used VSO's this means 100's MB's of ECSA can be assigned to the CTL region for these buffers. In a modern IMS system it would make sense for these buffers to me m...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Hot key to launch LPEX Editor

I usually use the COBOL Editor, but some operations are easier to do in LPEX, so it would be handy to easily launch the LPEX editor with a hotkey when I need. Now I need to right click the file, and find the LPEX editor, which is more clumpsy
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Incorrect Cross-reference of data names with integrated preprocessor CICS

When Integrated cics preprocessor is used, variable which are only used in EXEC CICS not appears in the Cross-refence of data names. It appears correctly when cics preprocessor is used
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Not under consideration

Autoconnect preference by remote system

In Windows - Preferences - Remote Systems, the "Connect automatically on startup" property would be useful if we could choose which remote system we want to auto-connect, not all connections. It is useful to avoid logging into ALL connections in c...
8 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect V3 deployment

From my application developer: The current system allows me to deploy both the Service and the API directly to the z/OS Connect Server. There are opportunities to optimize the process.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Batch load of Annotations

Provide a facility to load the Annotations DB in batch.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow modification of minItems in API Toolkit while defining a service

This is a request to add an advanced option to the z/OS Connect API Toolkit to allow a consumer to choose/set the minItems value during a service creation. This setting would force the api toolkit to generate schema that force minItems to 0, inste...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

PROGRAM-ID special register

A "PROGRAM-ID" special register should be usefull for writing diagnostic routines in Cobol programs. Alternative : an intrinsic function returning "PROGRAM-ID" and others informations about runtime context. Thanks. Denis
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

simultaneous remote connections to the same host

Right now, in IDz client version 16.0.3 we are using, different remote systems pointing to the same host can be configured and distributed by p2c, but simultaneous connection is not possible. Connecting one disconnects the other, and vice versa.
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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