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zUnit to support assertions 'lower than', 'greater than', 'different than', 'not null'

Currently zUnit only permits assertions ‘equal to’ in the testcases executions. We need zUnit to permit assertions of other types: ‘lower than’, ‘lower or equal than’, ‘greater than’, ‘greater or equal than’, 'different than' and 'not null'.This c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

SUBSTR JCL command should support variables with up to 44 chars or allow a continuation with the SETVAR directive

It should be possible to process up to 44 digits within a SUBSTRING command or to allow a continuation within the SETVAR directive. Variables with a value with up to 44 characters are not supported with the SUBSTR JCL function.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

DFHDPLOY More Functionality, i.e. FILE operations in CICS

Working with DFHDPLOY is quite good,makes handling of CICS-manipulation much easier.We currently searching for the Ability to CLOSE / DISABLE a vsam file andOPEN / ENABLE it after reloading.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

z/OS Project View Should Support Refresh

When importing a project via the Git Repositories view, the z/OS Project view does not always update. This is indicative of the view not receiving the UI hook when another view updates the filesystem. I've had to close and then reopen the view on ...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Supporting the OTMA protocol with the FES Exit

This would be useful for making an asynchronous outbound, calling external systems like cloud without the risk of queues on IMS or even hold IMS resources. It would be a benefit for clients who needs to make a connection with external systems. We ...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF opens unnecessary Java RMI-Ports on public IP

When starting z/OSMF, it openes the configured Socket for normal work. And it also openes an secondary Port with moving port-number (every restart a different port), which gives (on usage) a message which sounds like Java RemoteMethodInvocation.Ne...
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Task history should be available even when task history collection(ONDV) is inactive

It is not possible to view collected task history records, when the task history collection(ONDV) is inactive. Both from 3270UI and classic interface it should be possible to access already collected task history records even when the task history...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

WINDOW 100 lines long

We now have very large screens, so I am running with a 3270 screen 100x127. This is giving WINDOW a problem, especially when scrolling.I've done some testing and found the issue is due to the CNMKWIND panel definition only having 76 data lines. I ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

need to add AD Parser support for Control-M DOCOND statement

We us the DOCOND statement in our Control-M environment. This is connected to case TS015149717 which contains code examples.
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Enable SQL simple comments in FM/Db2

Why useful: CA FILE-AID (and QMF) supports SQL simple comments, but FM/Db2 does not. With this enhancement it will be easier for their users to transition to FM. FM/Db2 just ignores any statements after an in-line '--' comment. SQL simple comments...
8 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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