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JCL includes could be visible on Analyze client for analysis

Hi Team, If there is a option to analyze JCL include usage on JCL's and INCLUDE's usage on JOBS will be more beneficial for a project team. Currently we can anaylze procs, programs, datasets usage in jobs...please amend the process to analyze INCL...

Allow quick navigation in E3270UI by overtyping CICSPlex and Region name

In some E3270UI workspaces you can overtype the CICSPlex and Region name to allow you to quick navigate to data about other regions. This is not universally true, and on such case is the task history workspace (KCPTASH). Could you please add this ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / All components 0 Future consideration

Display Origination APPLID in Task History screen (KCPTASH)

In a complex CICS environment where hundreds of regions route workload dynamically with CPSM things get hard to track where work came from. CICS provided a SMF field OAPPLID to tell us where the current transaction originated from. Can you please ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Possibility to disable automatic "PU config on" by GDPS when CBU is active at IPL

Any z/OS system that is IPLed after the CBU, CPE, BOOST, or OOCoD activate will automatically have the PUs configured online during GDPS initialization in that system. This is not always a wanted configuration. For example, when Dev/Test system ar...
6 months ago in GDPS 8 Planned for future release

JSON PARSE error details

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose Parse messages to application code. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in Parse failures. Displaying th...
2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

JSONPUT generate special value null

Please provide the ability to generate keyword ‘null’ when a value is empty.Suggest a new attribute JSONNULL or similar. This would be mutually exclusive of JSONOMIT but could use the same criteria – empty/zero-length string or zero. Alternatively...
2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Enable File Manager in VS Code

Mainframe developers sometimes need to use File Manager. More and more, they are using VS Code for day-to-day work. It would sure be nice to have an extension in VS Code for File Manager, not least so that you can look at messages in and definitio...
4 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

zUnit should provide option to remove or clear the queues created during recording

zUnit is creating TSQs like A+ 6A²N, A+ Ù7), etc when stop recording is triggered in IDz. These TSQs are not deleted upon completion of the recording activity, thus leaving it in the system causing shortage to tempstorage.
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 0 Under review

Improve timing and history collection of Z/OS Omegamon

We have an open case TS015680477 about a collection problem that we are having for history data in Z/OS omegamon when we use the data to visualize, it is configured at the customer's request to collect every 1 minute, this is causing a problem of ...
about 2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow calculation of "OCLASTC" variables for months in the future

Currently, we can calculate the last calendar day with OCLASTC. From time to time it is needed to calculate the last calendar day of +1M or even more. According to these documentations, it is not valid to just calculate +1M to OCLASTC and the beha...
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration