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Let the Customer's DB2 Staff manage the Data Base Tables

Support for the software will be easier to manage. Trying to make sure the tables get updated with every upgrade is error prone requiring component reinstalls to fix missing tables / views. DB2 staff at a customer are always more intune with the i...
10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

improve messages from DFH$MOLS job when they encounter "CONNECTOR NOT DEFINED" error.

It is not clear at all from current messages, when customers encounter the good old missing a dictionary record problem, when running the DFH$MOLS job. They get something like: X'019E' - CONNECTOR NOT DEFINED; REPORT IS TERMINATED The reason for t...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

RDz: Setting .hce defaults before the file is created

We run RDz using a virtual server that all users start their instances of RDz from. When a user creates a new connection the emulator defaults to use unsecure telnet on port 23 and these settings are saved in the workspace .hce file. We'd like an ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

IDz Host Connection Emulator - allow mapping of Insert key

Users of IDz on macOS have no way to toggle Insert mode using Host Connection Emulator, because Apple does not support the Insert key. There is no Insert key on Apple keyboards, and the operating system even hides the key event from external third...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Not under consideration

Software analyzer : Documentation explaining code conformity/violations with examples

Some of the existing software analyzer built-in rules are not very comprehensive with examples. It is becoming more difficult to read code violation report and correct themselves by developers. For example built-in rule "Avoid using 88-entries in ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Stateless non-use Tpipes to be cleared after 2 checkpoints instead of 3

Currently stateless non-use tpipes are cleared after 3 checkpoints. Due to potential high volume of stateless tpipes would like the system to clear them sooner to avoid resource shortages. This specifically comes into play for us due the increased...
over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Future consideration

Help identifying moves causing invalid numeric values

Different move statements can cause invalid numeric values to be stored in numbers.This will cause dumps when compiling with NUMPROC(PFD) and ZONEDATA(PFD). We would like the compiler to help the programmers identify these statements at compile ti...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

IDz MVS filter should allow to create filter having first qualifier as * in dataset names similar to 3270?

IDz MVS filter should allow to create filter having first qualifier as * in dataset names similar to 3270? This would be useful to display say the first 10 entries. Mainframe 3270 screen allows wildcard for first level qualifier , why IDz it is no...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Add Dataclass parm to WCONFIG (PARMGEN and Config Manager)

Helpful for Omegamon output file allocation and management
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Multi >>WHEN for >>EVALUATE directive

The >>WHEN conditions of the >>EVALUATE directive should behave like the WHEN conditions of the EVALUATE instruction: when several conditions follow one another, without any intermediate text, they should be implicitly linked by an OR.
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

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