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External security manager (ESM) should be the only way to secure the product. The internal security feature should not be provided as default. The product should not be operative without any security.

It will help ensure our mainframe sites must comply with the internal security audit standards.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Installation 1 Not under consideration

UNISON_SCHED_IA value be the LOCAL time (NOT GMT TIME) of z/OS

The UNISON_SCHED_IA value shown in the JOBLOG of an operation run on a FTA that is DIRECTLY attached to the E2E server (NO MDM used) is going to be the GMT time (NOT LOCAL TIME) of z/OS when the job is submitted. The JOBLOG will show the correct ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Provide ISO 2014 COBOL Literal Enhancements

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSLANG13001; Voting Priority=2.8 +5=2 +4=5 +3=4 +2=11 +1=2 abstain=3 Priority=2.8 NOTE 1: This is a follow-up (possible replacement for): SSLNGC08006 2002 ISO COBOL - Enhanced literal continuation support ...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Include execution times for Code Coverage reports

In the Code Coverage result we can see the percentage of execution coverage for each routine, and we request to show the time spent to execute the routines.
about 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

replace SMF record compression in CICS w/zEDC ?

Request that Hursley performance team benchmark ( general purpose ) CPU reductions that may be realized by replacing CICS compression of SMF records with zEDC
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Add new COBOL statements

We would like to add 5 “new” Cobol statements, which would be similar to this query for COBOL: ACCEPT statement.(dbo.StatementReference.StatementType = 7), where 7 "COBOL: ACCEPT" Here are the 5 statements;4000 "COBOL: DATE_FORMAT"4001 "COBOL: DAT...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Dynamic invocation of Fault Analyzer from IDZ Debug

The users would expect Fault Analyzer to be invoked dynamically when debugging under IDZ Debug and an Abend occurs. It would be an expected continuation of the Debug process.
about 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

zDT - Allow ADCD install to custom path

Allow the location of zOS volumes to be recognized in Tools installed in a custom path. Currently requires the path to be /home/ibmsys1/zDT/adcd. The entire path and specifically adcd directory should be able to user defined, not hard-code and req...
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Option "Source -> Validate JCL" within IDz JCL editor does not work with tape datasets

Currently if there is a tape dataset used in the JCL job, this JCL editor feature "Source -> Validate JCL" does not support that. When using this option tape dataset is reported as "dataset not exist", but it clearly does, as it is tape and it ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer 2 Not under consideration

[RPP] DDL with clause "NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT constant"

In RPP, select option 'P' in CMS456 in dataaggragate -ce generate a clause NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT in the .ddl. NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT in DB2 allows inserting rows in a table without specify the value. A column with type integer or decimal would be ...
about 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

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