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Request IDz Editor to support(edit) SO/SI only(no DBCS) character in file.

When an z/OS memberinclude SI/SO only fieald, IDz Editor open read only mode. There'are many customer's case that SO/SI only(no DBCS) character exists. If IDz editor's Operability is same as ISPF editor,IDz will very useful many customers.(editabl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

OMEGAMON XE password length

US DOD Auditor are requiring all DOD servers to use. passwords greater than 8 characters long, mixed case and all special characters. OMEGAMON XE for z/os and MVS doesn't support pass phrase therefore we cannot meet the US DOD auditors requirements.
over 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

setting default presentation of varaibles in monitor

there is no support in the debug engine for the remote debug session as you see it in MFI - there is no code to set the default presentation . You can use the memory view but thats the same as changing the presentation for each variable.
about 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Expand the capabilities of the Push to Client Features supported in IBM Developer for z/OS

The following link lists the currently supported configuration items that are supported with the IDz Push to Client feature. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/15.0?topic=configuration-planning-push-client-environment This is a request ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

Avoid console message IOERR response when - trying to - access resource. Possible NOTAUTH in certain situations

When running a Program thru the Debugger for the first time, the Debugger will will add the program to the SAVEBPS dataset and issues the following messages to the console: -13.29.06 S2 J0970 +EQA9893I Userid DCP800T received an IOERR response whe...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Keep the optimization of MOVE during the prolog program on the group data-items declared VOLATILE

Hi When the VOLATILE clause is present on a group zone that contains data-item with VALUE clauses (these data-items are constant and are never modified in procedure, these can be considered as a signature of the program), the optimization of the g...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

CICS PA Submitting of HDB batch jobs

CICS PA for the HDB creation builds the job/s into a single job that has multiple jobs inside of that single job. That doesn't work well for production standards, where we have to execute jobs thru a scheduling tool. Would like to have that proces...
over 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

IDZ Software Analyzer Batch with 5 severity levels

In the IDz Client you have a choice to switch between 3 or 5 levels. This is under "Software Analyzer" -> "Severity Levels". But if you run a Batch Job you can not configure that you have 5 levels in the Rules Dataset.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to remove MTO LTERM

When SA IMS automation is implemented there will be no Netview TAF-terminal dequeueing the messages from the MTO LTERM.
almost 7 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 4 Not under consideration

New Reference Stop option in the TK Debugger

Request support for a new "Reference stop" breakpoint type. This would stop when a given EVA memory location is accessed by the traced ECB (read OR updated). Support would at minimum allow the user to specify a memory address for a given number of...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration