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Reference Application for zAPM components

Consider shipping reference application style scripts/injectors/stubs with the zAPM components to help the deployment teams to verify the installation without having to engage multiple teams across different technology areas. For zCEE - Consider u...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

Allow different zAPM Distributed Gateways to communicate

Where there are multiple DGs that may be globally dispersed, CICS (SYSPLEX1) connected to DG1 => MQ => CICS (SYSPLEX2) connected to DG2 may result in events being sent to different DGs for a single end to end message flow. Even though the DG...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

Netview ALLOCATE does not permit Concatenations

The Netview allocate command only permits the ability to allocate one dataset to a file name.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Need Intrinsic Function equal to STCKCONV macro

Provide an Intrinsic Function that performs the same conversion as the STCKCONV Assembler macro to eliminate the necessity of writing and maintaining a separate Assembler subroutine to perform the STCKCONV action.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

160x62 large session TN3270E TCP/IP support

Hi, (This RFE is in relation to TS005782734). I am trying to replace our vtam /sna connections ( 160x62) in supersession with TCP/IP connections. I'm following this section from the SuperSession basic configuration guide:...IBM CL/SuperSession 3.1...
over 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Extend GDPS Metro Support for KVM Guest Systems

To build a KVM environment under Linux for IBM Z makes it necessary to implement new HA and DR features. In a grown z/OS environment, GDPS Metro solves many problems which have to be solved again for Linux just by another product. To make IBM Z wi...
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

IDz v16.0.2 RCE is that possible to shift Secondary keyboard display from vertically to bottom on screen like v14x ?

IDz v16.0.2 RCE is that possible to shift Secondary keyboard display from vertically to bottom on screen like v14x ?
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Planned for future release

Debugger Remote Debug Service to permit RACF keyrings

The Debugger Remote Debut Service (RDS) currently only allowa the HTTPS server certificates to be stored in a JKS keystore. We need it to be extended to allow z/OS system programmers to store the certificates in RACF keyrings.
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Filter on a GDG entry gives "Empty list"

Filter on a GDG entry gives in IDz the answer "Empty list", even though the GDG have children.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 9 Not under consideration

Reopen data sets after restart

Local files are reopened after restarting Eclipse automatically, remote z/OS file aren't. Please add an option to have also the last z/OS Data sets / members opened, that were open upon shutdown.
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration