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Application Discovery - Handling of special characters in search file function

Function 'search in files' in application discovery doesn't retrive the special characters strings/words from the source base. There were few instance where there is need to perform scan based on the leading/trailing quote(single or double) and/or...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

IDz: Allow IDZ user build variables to be generated from RTC language definition/translator instead of manually via IDz Prefs

In an IDz user build, DDNAMEs using variables as STEP RCs in a build have to be defined manually in the context of the z/os project.Normally, the STEPS and initBuild are defined as properties of the language definition by navigating to IDz Window/...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Future consideration

DB2 Backup Object Size to Reflect in Metadata

Currently DB2 doesn't provide backup object size in Admin_Hist or any metadata tables. It writes to diag but that's very challenging to read and interpret . If backup object size info added to metadata it will help for planning our backup storage ...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

When an ISV vendor has a comma in their name remove it before populating the IZSAM Db2 repository.

There are several ISV vendors with a comma in there company name and when you use the data extracted from IZSAM in CSV format this creates an issue when reading the file with another program. If you were to scan the ISV vendor company name and rem...
12 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 3 Not under consideration

Enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4)

We need to enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4) to complete a job with an error state. Currently, there is no post-EQQMEP1L confirmation panel that requires you to verify a job data before completing your job. Because of ...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support Multiple IP-addresses in z/OS Connect EE

Our client is making an outbound API call from CICS using z/OS Connect EE. Client's API team presented us with three IP-addresses for their API server. The addresses was pointed to the same server with each corresponding to an availability zone fo...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Implement binary copy/paste in PL/I and COBOL editors

Allowing in edition the copy-cut/paste of binary characters in COBOL and PL/I editors
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Provide ability to Include/Exclude/OMIT zOS Conn LIST report.

CICS PA zOS Connect LIST report helps to format individual records as such. Currently it reports 40+ Fields. Can we be provided with option to OMIT fields that we dont want in the report. Can we be provided with Filter option to INCLUDE / EXCLUE r...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Provide "Batch Execution" feature in File Manager Plug-in

New format Case Number: TS003037937 Provide a "Batch Execution" feature as part of relevant File Manager functions that can be performed using the IDz plug-in, e.g. Data Set Compare. If this feature is requested the FM plug-in will create a JCL de...
almost 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PCOMM support display EBCDIC code range from CF41 to F786 Chinese Character

in case# TS002613682, PCOMM is not able to render Chinese character which EBCDIC code range from CF41 to F786 due to its implementation using an old method of converting host chars to Chinese GBK before rendering on the screen.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

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