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Additional field (PWFI) for the REGION's panel - (KIPDEPS e3270UI)

On panel KIPDEPS (e3270UI), please check if it's possible to include the capability to show a column identifying which regions are PWFI=Y Thanks.
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Add "dhead" command to IBM Z Open Automation Utilities

I would like to see a "dhead" command provided with the "IBM® Z Open Automation Utilities" (ZOA Utilities), similar to the "dtail" command, but able to read the first n lines of a dataset and synonymous with the Unix "head" command.
over 4 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Delivered

Customer requires all runtime metrics collection components, data, logs, etc to be fixed to a single time zone

This aligns the collected results, logs and etc to time frames that align with the other tools, processes, etc in the enterprise. This is a blocker to adoption of RTMC in production.
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Simplify access management while using z/OS Connect Authorization Interceptor

Currently, when the z/OS Connect supplied authorization interceptor is enabled, we need to configure AdminGroup, OperationsGroup and InvokerGroup explicitly with RACF Group names which will then have respective permissions. The User IDs attaching ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Need tool that allows for manual merging of 3 files creating a new 4th file

As a developer, when there is source contention on a file, a tool is needed to help resolve that contention by generating a new file containing the differences manually selected by the developer. A tool is needed that will assist in resolving cont...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

CICS Transaction Gateway Daemon Memory Statistics

We need to monitor memory usage in CICS Transaction Gateway but OMEGAMON currently does not produce Gateway Daemon memory statistics. We can use this information to generate alerts and collect history for trending. These statistics will also help ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Enhanced processing of invalid characters in HEXDECODE

The newly introduced HEXDECODE builtin, according to its description, will raise the error condition if the buffer contains any character other than '0123456789ABCDEFabcdef', leaving it to the support staff or programmer to find the offending char...
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Eclipse Style COBOL Editor in IDz not Complaining About Empty ELSE statement

The z/OS COBOL compiler complains if an ELSE block contains no code. This is ok. The Eclipse Style COBOL editor does not complain if an ELSE block contains no code. This is not good because in such a case the programmers only notice their mistake ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Delivered

Add new warning message for large STATIC data increasing the object and (multiple) load module(s)

We would like to have a warning message issued for large STATIC data - similar to the IBM2668I message (with count) and the MAXINIT option: The limit can be specified via a new option (like MAXSTATIC). We suggest the same default of 64K. The ...
over 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Sonar integration

Hello, Euro Information is involved in DevOps process and as a consequence needs to facilitate quality analysis directly when developers are coding their Cobol programs. Sonar is one of the leaders in this domain and we want to make it possible fo...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

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