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Unreferenced Variables

When variables are defined in a program (and not in a copybook), as in :01 Used. 05 unused Pic x. 05 usedP1 pic x. The variable unused is not referenced but usedP1 is. We can see if they are not referenced in the program by looking Show In -> D...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Add sending to MQ Distribution lists support to ZTPF MQ Client

Z/TPF Applications want the ability to send one copy of an MQ message to multiple Queue Managers and Multiple Queues
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Run CICS JVMSERVERs completly on 64bit Memory Above the bar to avoid 31bit memory constrains

Rigth now, we can only run approx 6-7 JVMSERVERs due to 31bit memory constrains It would be really helpful to be able to Run CICS JVMSERVERs completly on 64bit Memory Above the bar allowing to increase the amount of JVMSERVERs per CICS Region.
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Parameter to control loading of the artifacts on startup

Hello IBM, z/OS Connect currently load all the artifacts while starting and there is no parameter to control loading which can cause z/OS Connect instance to run out or memory on startup due to obsolete services within /services folder. We are req...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Please add LIKE & IN predicates to WHERE

Please add support for the IN and LIKE predicates to the WHERE clause of update definitions to simplify the code.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Omegamon IMS zIIP exploitation

We use TEPS for detailed monitoring on IMSPlex enviorenment. After a while some of Omegamon adress spaces started to use high CPU. We monitor region occupancy, global lock conflicts, region statistics from TEPS. Since these monitoring functions ca...
over 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Client 1 Future consideration

JAVA in CICS - SMF recording of user program/tranid/userid

The customer (FCA/Chrysler) would like to track CPU usage for Java programs running in CICS. From what I can tell the SMF 110 data is only collect for CJSA transactions that the Java programs run under.Does the SMF 110 data for CJSA have any other...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

zOS PT - Enable console commands to be submitted via REXX script for zCEE Workflows

We would like the zOSPT - zOS Connect workflows to be updated to allow usage of REXX scripts to submit console commands. The CICS workflows have the option to use REXX or API-EMCS to submit console commands. We'd like to see both of these same opt...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / Workflow 1 Future consideration

Product usage reporting (IDZ, z/OS explorer, ..)

We would like to be able to track who is using what product (IDZ, z/OS Explorer, Data studio, CICS explorer, MQ explorer , ....).At least, we would like to know that someone is using an IDZ licence (or RDZ, ...)
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

VS Code plugin for AD Analyze client

We have spent a lot of time trying to make AD Analyze client work with IDZ without any success. we then resorted to having a separate installation of AD analyze client with IBM Explorer.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration