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Do a Logical Or on the target of an Execute instruction

When the debugger uses the in-storage copy of the Execute target, it usually only displays the first byte of the operand and sometimes displays the wrong operand entirely. When the Ex target is an SS instruction then the length can only be determi...
about 2 months ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Under review

Allow larger variable length fields beyond the current limit of 32767

We’re proposing an enhancement to z/OS Connect’s OPENAPI2 to better handle larger variable length fields. Currently, to accommodate large data returned by our apiRequester endpoint, we’re required to set the varying field to a fixed length (charac...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Design an easier way to send IBM E3270UI program check data

Currently when the E3270UI takes a program check, the PC data is displayed on-screen, and thus the user is forced to create a screen shot and attached it to a case. For both the users and IBM, issue reporting would be much easier, if E3270UI progr...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Support for Cobol stored procedure in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support we are missing the support to see, execute and debug Cobol stored procedure trough IDz UI. It would be easier for the developer to execute it as it's supposed to b...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Future consideration

Maintain text formatting by copying/pasting from IDZ to external editor like WORD

We would like to retain the layout of the text of a COBOL program or a JCL when copying and pasting from COBOL editor IDZ to an external editor like WORD. Indeed, when opening a COBOL program (or JCL) with the COBOL editor (or JCL editor), which i...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Create a solution on IZPCA to support multiple customers with the same MVS_SYSTEM_ID

This idea will be a great improvement in the architecture of IZPCA to be able the new scenario of zCloud. Kyndryl is supporting customer in zCloud and the IZPCA must be installed to support all these customers in a shared DB in zCloud. To support ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

Achieve multi-tenancy support for the sendmail definitions (alert conditions and text)

As the need for a multi-tenant system with TWS grows in significance due to the decentralization of work across various groups within the company, having a mechanism to separate sendmail definitions (alert conditions and text) among different auth...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Simplified mechanism for surfacing GDPS operational alerts

There are 100's or more of Warning and Error level messages that GDPS will display based on ecosystem issues. Not every message needs immediate vs delayed attention. We would like to see an easily customizable mechanism for selectively surfacing “...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Python support for RACF Keyrings

With Python becoming more popular on z/OS for automation tasks, it should provide the same level and mechanisms of security offered in other ported languages such as Java. Currently, for example, certificates stored in RACF must be exported, copie...
over 2 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 1 Future consideration

Allow lists of programs or versions by parameter

Currently, using the cicsrequestexit provided with the CTG (BasicCICSRequestExit) it is possible to reject requests that come from a client with a lower software version than we indicate. Similarly we could do so for those requests that try to inv...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Planned for future release

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