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Remove ACTIVE JOBS filter under JES

Due to active jobs filter as it is driving extremely high CPU on the Host system and slowing down the Development environment for everyone. We want to remove that option while packaging the IDZ.
6 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Sync Cognos and IzPCA Installed Components

Reports for uninstalled components should not be visible on Cognos
6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Delivered

2FA access to DWC or RestAPI

Instead of performing it’s own user/password authentication DWC reads the user from the HTTP header. DWC should be able to restrict the traffic it accepts by IP addresses or DNS names in order to have a trust relation with the proxy.
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

add a command to display information about the IQIDFLTS in use, differences, and other

It would be useful to know which defaults were used for a user, that the defaults have changed and any users specified differences in use. Diagnosing a settings issue for a user can be a slow cumbersome process without knowing some basic information.
6 months ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

CTG V9.3 support on RHEL V9

Hi Team, Currently we are using CTG V9.3 on Websphere Application server on RHEL V8. CTG is configured on Websphere Application server using ECI Resource Adpaters in local mode with IPIC protocol. We are planning to migrate OS from RHEL V8 to RHEL...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Delivered

JSON Parse and Generate in EBCDIC

LE (Language Environment) just implemented APAR PH57152 for COBOL to Parse and Generate JSON in EBCDIC. It would be useful if PLI implemented the same functionality. Developers often have issues in working in multiple code pages. Improper initiali...
6 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Sort by discovered type

Add a feature to discover the file type via the content and sort the types into the proper folders for building.
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Delivered

When a task/process fails for ZCPYS we would like a secondary output that shows the first child error to be included with the REST respnose

when a process fails for a ZCPYS we get a generic IWNR1027E error message that states <task> has completed with one or more errors. This doesnt tell the host operator any information, usually resulting in tickets being generated and calls be...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add support for debugging with LangX in Cobol 6

A Cobol program compiled with the Cobol 4 compiler using the option NOTEST can be debugged using the LangX genedated from the listings. It would be very useful to enable this feature for Cobol 6 programs too.
7 months ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

NOLAXNESTED behavior modification

The NOLAXNESTED compiler option should just prevent code in a proc and nested procs to be intermixed.The rule should be that the code in a proc forms a single 'block'. Case 1 : All nested procs AFTER the code => Acceptable a: proc; dcl (x,y,z) ...
7 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

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