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Enhance COBOL Save Actions for Copybooks

Have a look at the Save Actions page for the COBOL editor: Under "Copybook Files" there are only 2 options (whitespace / format). This suggests, only these 2 options are configurable for copybooks. In reality also all settings under "Source Files"...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

The capability to user defined information to INGALERT when called from SA Policy

I need to add user defined information to the INGALERT when it is called from the defined CDE MATCH in SA POLICY definition under MVC - INGALERT.ExampleIf a DB2 abend I need to add the group Id for the group that are responsible for that DB2.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

New NetView service/function to provide WTOR information

* Note: if NetView product is not appropriate for this request, client accepts that it may be considered for SAzOS product instead. NetView (or SAzOS) requires a mechanism to provide a user with WTOR information via API or clist/rexx implementatio...
over 12 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

PARMGEN temporary generated files deletion

This RFE is to ask IBM to create a internal process in the PARMGEN, as the generated temporary files created by PARMGEN process is deleted after the end of the configuration, removing the necessity of manual deletion of files.
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

ZAware Alerting by Specific System

Need to be able to ignore alerting on specific systems or change alerting filters for specific systems. For example we are sending operlog to zAware from some of our test and developement systems .... but they generally have many anomalies . When ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Future consideration

Can CUZ#EXPR be changed so it only produces reports and doesn't delete anything

CUZ#EXPR is run to delete expired backups from the repository and cloud service(s). I would be nice if there were an option available to allow it to produce the reports of what will be deleted without actually doing the deletes. The reports can th...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add Ability to Display Erroneously Available File Addresses

Currently, there is no function available to create a list of erroneously available addresses for analysis. We would like to see another option for ZRECP DISPLAY similar to the lost address display - like ZRECP DISPLAY ERRON FA ID-PR MAX-10. The d...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) New user exit to avoid SNAP CPSI ECB generation

SNAPC processing CXFRC's a new ECB to CPSI even if the SNAP is being suppressed (ZASER S NODUPL or ZIDOT SUPPRESS etc). A check is done to ensure at least 6% ECBs/frames are available so this processing should not cause an outage, but it can resul...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Currently zUnit with IDZ 14.2.2 does not support this case: the list of files are opened in other programs..

We have tested zUnit on simple standalone batch loads however we are now trying to create test cases for individual programs (csects) with a load module. We are getting file open errors in the case where the main program has the open for the file,...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Future consideration

zsock ipmt enhancement

Customer is requesting the zsock ipmt display to include items like the ip addresses and port numbers for the socket plus to include the actual counts of datagrams instead of how many ‘blocks' this socket may have a datagram in.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration