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Add Control-M scheduler support in IBM Application Discovery

Currently, IBM Application Discovery can only support schedulers for IWS/TWS, A-Auto & CA-7 but not Control-M. Many customers who are interested in ADDI are using Control-M. It would be great if the product can support Control-M so that custom...

Change default cursor location .

When I press the escape key (which is usually an ATTN key) while inside a session, then the cursor will default to the first session on the main menu. In a previous version ( 1.4.7) the cursor was always positioned on the current session when re...
almost 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

ZOS Connect - No error description is returned for length validation on server for IMS APIs

If the Length of input value entered in alphanumeric field exceeds than that of length of field defined at backend/API. Z/OS Connect tool doesn't send any message onto UI, though message is logged onto Server message.Log file. This is happening fo...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Tiered authority for Admin functions

SS will need to support different tiers of Admins: System, Master, Operator, User with panels to support thisWhat functions does each tier need to perform? Master Administrator -can assign administrative authority to other users. This authority is...
almost 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Improved functions for LABEL Breakpoints for Debug Tool

This request is primarily for Enterprise COBOL, but applies to all the languages supported by Debug Tool. It initiated from the Common Wealth of Pennsylvania. Label breakpoints need to be presented to the user the same as statement breakpoints. Th...
almost 13 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Make job output switchable

Due to modern availability requirements of applications, more and more CICS regions have to run 24/7. The job output does dramatically increase and the amount of required JES spool space dramatically increases.Nearly every customer has this proble...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Install the emulator directly on the target environment

ZD&T EE v12 offers only one installation method to deploy the ZD&T emulator, that is via ZD&T EE Web Tools. The installation methods should include direct and command line install in the target environment. Note that this installation ...
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

Set open mode by filter configuration

We ask our users to not open a dataset in edit mode if not needed. Preferences allow to change the default open mode to browse or view, which often is unhandy in some situations. The same option on a per filter basis would be much more comfortable...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

DYNAMICDEL(YES) should be default and warning message needed if EQQCXDS is too large

As mentioned in the Customization Guide under the DYNAMICDEL parameter:Note: It is strongly recommended that DYNAMICDEL(YES) be specified by all users who use significantly the dynamic addition of special resources. If the records dynamically adde...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered

add DFDL the structure to structure support to openAPI

currently only one schema can be defined for request/response in openAPI swagger. This does not allow you to use the DFDL structure to structure schemas. DFDL structure-to-structure schemas have proven to be very good at reducing the amount of mai...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered