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Show REXX resource consumption

Similar to the languages already supported by Application Performance Analyzer - COBOL, Assembler, PL/I, C/C++, JAVA on z, and Natural - also support the REXX language
about 10 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

DB2 SQL TYPE ROWSET FOR n ROWS

To facilitate the declaration of host-variables necessary for multirow access in DB2, I suggest the creation of a new SQL type dedicated to the creation (generation) of structures with OCCURS on elementary variables. SQL TYPE IS ROWSET FOR n ROWS ...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Add option to test cases and that should be automatically saved in workspace

Currently Debuggger is not integrated with ZUnit.If we need to create test cases for zUnit, we have to go out of our way from our daily routine and do a lot of painful preparation and do the test cases in such a way that zUnit will give some resul...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

Propagate original Userid from CPSM interface / CICS Explorer (GSE requirement GGCIC10006)

Changes made through CICS explorer (CE) or the CPSM WUI are executed in the target region using the CICS region Userid rather than the original Userid.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Display of BLF-Data

Interactive Analysis of a batch dump: Content of BLF data online shown in dump format. Info from compile listing is not used (as in Working-Storage).
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Adding a timeout feature in IDz

We have developers reporting that when a program is in edit mode then the component will show up as locked. There are several times, devs forgot to close the programs and the releases cannot be deployed unless the devs go in IDz and close the prog...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

IMS JAVA to honor POSIX signaling

POSIX standards allow users to signal to processes. This signaling capability might be honored by the UNIX runtime itself or propagated to the middleware on top of the Unix implementation (or thread). Typically: USS kill -n is the used user-interf...
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Omegamon agent disconnects from Linux HTEMS often

Our mainframe Omegamon agent disconnects from Linux HTEMS often. Please see if IBM can provide the solution to prevent this error. We want to setup the automation to track the case and send message to support team, but KDS9142I message shows up fr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow IDz RSE Retrieved data sets function to display dataset aliases the way ISPF 3.4 does.

In ISPF a 3.4 dataset search will list aliases and datasets. In RDz and IDZ the alias is not listed, a 0 found is returned. We are still using RSE server version 8.5 so this may have been resolved in new RSE server.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

manage several CICSPlex at same time in CICS explorer

Assuming there are several CMCI port which belong to different CICSPlex. currently, CICS explorer can only connect to one CMCI port. User want to connect to several CMCI port at same time and manage the resources in different CICSPlex.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

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