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To do a LIST specifying the TIMEDEP as filter

For the "List" action in EQQYCAIN, there isn't any parameter to filter "time dependent"(TIMEDEP) jobs.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Provide monitor, list, and update capabilities for z13 vector registers

Provide capabilities to work with vector registers, using commands and features similar to the way that floating point registers can be accessed. 1) For commands that currently support floating point registers by using the %EPR variable, add suppo...
about 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Implementing trusted fonts in IBM Personal Communications

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over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

WOLA BBOC CSD Ressource

Using the WOLA interface is quite difficult and does not allow the use of dynamic changes in a running system. e.g. One is forced to use BBOC STOP_SRVR and then the corresponding BBOC START_SRVR (with all parameters). This has quite a few disadvan...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

IDz Cobol editor to have ability to open files from copybook declaration

File declaration in the copybook is requested to be hyperlinked to allow easy and direct access to the output or input datasets.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Drop warning message for EXCI programs

We have programmers who feel compelled to have their compiles complete with a zero return code. This became an issue when we upgraded from COBOL 4.2 to 6.2; the warning message was not issued with the old version. With the integrated translator, t...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

MSG ID for record coming out in CSDL TDQ

When CICS writes records to CSDL for all the RDO changes, the record looks like below. 8104 001 CEDA Z106998 01/14/19 07:44:39 DEFINE TRANSACTION(WXYZ) GROUP(JOHN) PROGRAM(WXYZ) TWASIZE(0) PROFILE(DFHCICST) 8104 001 CEDA Z106998 BEFORE 01/14/19 07...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Request to update IBM explorer for zOS to support wildcard filters in middle like AAA*BB*C

During impact analysis, When we try to filter the jobs in Job usage inventory .1. When we use the wildcard as CAU* , it is populating all the jobs where the job name starts with CAU. please find the screenshot. <CAU_Wildcard.png>2. When we t...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence 1 Not under consideration

Expedite the IMS TPIPE cleanup

We would like to have the TPIPE clean up occuring more quickly and/or to have a possibility to command this action when we foundthe TPCNT growing quickly, instead to wait IMS take 3 checkcpointsto delete the TPIPES.
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 1 Not under consideration

CICS CSD - multiple lists

When build the AD repository with information from the CICS CSD file, the current implementation seems to limit the tool to read from 1 single DFHCSDUP LIST command. In many cases an application runs in multiple CICS regions (for workload manageme...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration