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Support "EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" in ZUnit

"EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" is a common syntax using in CICS, without the support we have a large portion of application team cannot adopt ZUnit.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Crosshair Cursor in Host Connection Emulator

Outside of RDz the ISPF interface we used had cross hairs on the cursor. In RDz the Host Connection Emulator does not have this functionality. I have had many requests for this to be added, so I am submitting an RFE
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

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

Provide additional commands in Remote Debugger

As we try to run DebugTool MFI and remote using the same configuration and command files we would like to have the following commands supported in RemoteDebugger:- COMMENT- CLEAR LOG- %IF- EVALUATE- LIST %dt-var- GO Also we would like to have a De...
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

zUNIT: input file with >7000 lines leads to JAVA heap issue

Large input file in zUNIT with number of lines ( > 7000 lines ) leads to issue. Need solution or best practice to work with large input files. IBM CASE: TS009275317
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Tracking Outbound of the Z

Currently zAPM supports tracking inbound and outbound between Sysplexes over MQ, but it does not currently support calls/transactions going outbound of the Z to another distributed application monitored by AppDynamics. When will outbound (E2E trac...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

zAPM to support iSeries

Include support for iSeries systems, in addition to zSeries
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

Ability to debug EGL web services running on WAS

Currently it is not possible to debug an EGL web service which is running on a WAS. The only possible way to debug such a service is to write a (small) client which calls that service anddebug it that way. In that way you are however not testing t...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 Not under consideration

Allow DFHJVM* logs to roll based on file size

We recently upgraded to CICS 6.1 and encountered an unexpected log message from a Liberty JVM. It wasn't frequent enough to trigger alarms in test, but did once it went to production, filling our logging partition. We attempted to delete the massi...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Generate Swagger file in YAML format

For outbound services, zos connect supports swagger in both JSON and YAML format. Is it possible as well for Inbound Services we can make some configuration to state if the generated Swagger should be in JSON or YAML format.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration