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IMS Load instr @ DFSDOC10+CC has base & index registers reversed issue discovered while running ZAD

IMS Load instr @ DFSDOC10+CC has base & index registers reversed issue discovered while running ZAD
about 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

TPF Client channel does not support SSL

TPF is inquiring if there is any future possibility of adding SSL to our ZMQID DEF parms for our client channels to be defined securely. We are currently in a project with z/OS MQ and concerns are being raised creating channels without TLS on the ...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

AD Analyze client showing repeated job steps in the job flow graph

The job flow graph shows has the steps repeated multiple times. After investigation it was found out that it is happening due to two reasons:1. Less details are presented on the jobflow graph by design (program name or dataset name is not shown by...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Ability to override PARMs in ELAXFMFS proc through IDz Property Groups

Our IDz users, who use the IBM supplied ELAXFMFS proc, have let us know that they're unable to override the PARM specification (in this ELAXFMFS proc) through IDz. Typically, for all other ELAXF* procs, they're able to override PARMs using IDz ‘Pr...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Future consideration

SMU List job status widget

A widget that enables us to easily view and filter IZWS jobs and jobstreams as a list
about 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

PD Tools - File Manager V14.1 - MQ files editor: automatic conversion to EBCDIC?

We will need to use a template with MQFMT_NONE as recommended, when in doubt about the original encoding of messages in a queue.But it would be much better if, by default, the message is displayed in this original encoding, with the possibility of...
about 3 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Customer: NEXT (retailer in UK) wants to use "synchronization file" on NATURAL source code

Customer (NEXT clothing retailer in UK) uses Natural source code and wishes to use synchronization to update the source code. Customer currently has to do manual updates to source code which is labor intensive.
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

NTH File usage in the TOM

One of the nice things in the Omegamon Classic monitor for DB2 is the information when the Near Term History files wrap. This indicates the frequency of their use and provides a basis to increase their size or the number of them. This is something...
over 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 5 Future consideration

zUnit: support for unit testing of nested programs

We have some Cobol programs in which nested programs are used. Unfortunately, this is not currently supported by zUnit.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Future consideration

Enhance AAM syntax logic to support nested INCLUDE/EXCLUDE

The current syntax structure of AAM makes it difficult to replicate logic flows implemented using IF THEN controls. AAM syntax structure should be enhanced to support the ability to nest INCLUDE/EXCLUDE statements. This capability would all for mo...
about 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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