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COBOL to JSON conversion schema assistant(DFHJS2LS) to allow specification of which COBOL internal datatype is to be mapped rather than defaulting to Comp-2

Issue description: simple test that makes very visible that an issue exists in the serialization from COBOL to JSON: a. We have a JSON “double” in the input named “test_comp_2” valued with 2.003, for example. b. We have a JSON “double” in the...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

support error message during startup

Keep Status Messages (Halted, Breaking, Broken, Abending, Abended) of resources over UP-Message(s). Allow threshold processing to issue commands for INFR, FREQ, CRIT during Startup-process Simular to MTR-resources allow to issue commands if Thresh...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Better validation of License server names

If you by accident type in a invalid host name for the License server in the zD&T EE Admini interface, you do not get an error, but at the instance deployment time you get a strange error that the target cannot communicate with the ZD&T EE...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Enhance IPLB0088T to show channel in error

Please enchance the following message to display pertinent information to the channel that is having issues - IPLB0088T CHANNEL CHECK THRESHOLD EXCEEDED. IPL TERMINATED+ This would be very useful in quickly identifying the problem and taking corre...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SA ISPF Dialogue Build option to support directly duilding to GDG(+1)

Hi SA Dev, In the SA ISPF dialogue 2 BUILD OPTION in the ‘Output Data Set' field:please provide support to allow user to specify the DSN(+1) for an existing GDG when building to an ACF. Customers can allocate a new DSN(+1) to an existing GDG using...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

Indicator in the Analyze Client interface to tell the user if the project is ready for discovery

Currently users don't know if a project is completed as the last step of a MAKE or BUILD action nl. batch server callgraph update process, is hidden. It must be clear for users if they can rely on the analysis results or if the batch portion is st...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

API to fill manually the Remote Error List

In IDz we would like to offer to our developers the Remote Error list filled with the compile errors / warnings / information of Cobol Programs. Since we have a multi-step-compile we cannot use the usual way for this feature due to a shift of the ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

ZWS Support for SMF Exit IEFU86

z/OS 2.3 introduced SMF Exit IEFU086, which is being recommended to use in place of IEFU83, IEFU84, and IEFU85 since it can handle the new extended SMF record header. IEFU86 is currently not documented nor is a customized sample version shipped wi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Please create/update izpca with record definition and tables for SMF 116 class 4 report and SMF_115 subtype 5,6,7

MQ team has been advised by IBM to use these reports and the IZPCA product doesn't have these defined.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

ISSUEACT to support threshold name in the thres parm

Update ISSUEACT to support dynamic thresholds supplied by the user.
about 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration