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Add timeout for active and parked debug sessions in IBM Z Open Debug in VS Code

It is common that developers leave active debug sessions open, leaving for lunch or afternoon tea. Even more common that multiple sessions are parked without ever being connected to. It would be VERY helpful if these sessions could timeout. We wou...
9 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Standalone Dump support in GDPS AutoIPL

In order to allow prompt response in the scenario of a system failure, automating a standalone dump taking upon system failure is a key process for collecting essential diagnostic information and at the same time allow prompt recovery of system to...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

ETT Trigger Feature

A lot of different companies I´ve talked with have problems with excessive ETT Triggering where there are so many triggers you go over the length of your current plan. I think it would be very appreciated to have some new kind of ETT triggering fe...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.
26 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.
26 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.
26 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Infuse AI into the products to auto-discover customer environment and auto-configure most of the setups during a product installation.

Infuse AI into the products to auto-discover customer environment and auto-configure most of the setups during a product installation.
26 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Cobol Editor should have the preference: Host Characters (like LPEX editor)

The Cobol Editor does not display non-displayable characters correctly. The LPEX editor does have the option to replace characters (LPEX Editor -> Appeareance -> Host Characters) . This allows us that for certain non-displayable characters (...
26 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Displaying files with non-printable or compressed characters with the LPEX editor

Related case: TS016645534 The LPEX editor does not print all non-printable or compressed characters in the same way, causing the data to be displayed misaligned. As seen in the attached files, from the terminal (indent.png) we can check that the d...
26 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

OMEGAMON CICS Exit KOCOME00 always returns RC=0 for XMNOUT exit. It should return the previous exit program's RC if it's greater than the OMEGAMON exit's RC.

We have our own XMNOUT exit to suppress SMF110 records for CSMI and some exception records. Our exit works fine until we need to do OMEGAMON maintenance which does OMEG REMOVE and OMEG INIT. Normally the sequence of the XMNOUT program is KOCOME00 ...
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

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