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Filter Pool - Rename function for "technical/special" filters

Hi, the IDz automatically generates "special filters" in the filter pool view with a technical name: CN-Connection-Name-xxxx (See attachment). Which says nothing and does not look pretty. Since I can't delete them (they are automatically generated...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Provide ZFILE function to display largest file system files and/or directories that can be sorted on zTPF

Provide a way to display file system usage that can be sorted. Currently ZFILE du does not support an option to sort output by file/directory size. The output can be very large and is difficult to manually scan for the largest files. We need funct...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Planned for future release

Provide ZFILE sort command

Provide a way to sort output from ZFILE commands. Many ported ZFILE commands do not have all options supported and the ability to sort on z/TPF the ZFILE output is essential in quickly finding details without having to use ZPAGE or cut/paste or wr...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Dynamic exit support for EQQUX007

Many tools use the EQQUX007 exit point to collect information about IZWS job details. Only one exit implementation may be used as so it means that if multiple users want to leverage this exit, implementing code at the client side must be recompile...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Provide Full BAS support within CICS Explorer

The WUI has features (i.e. BAS) that are required in the CICS Explorer to make it more robust and useful. The following are examples of those features: - RASGNDEF (Resource Assignment Definition) or facility to create, display, modify, and delete ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Enhance ZCHCH to include a parameter for ONLY the count of chains (not the display of all chains) as well as MAX (or ALL) parameter in place of numeric for number of chains

Parameter for COUNT of chains would eliminate the need to ZPAGE through page after page of displays of addresses to get to the count. Then if chain addresses were needed, a redisplay without the COUNT parameter could be done. Parameter for MAX (or...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Linux utility tpfdataredux needs completely replace zOS DATAREAD

RFE 39856 requested data reduction be moved to linux. This RFE was closed when linux tpfdataredux utility was delivered in PJ42460. However, tpfdataredux only supports a few reports so we still need to run zOS DATAREAD and cannot realize the benef...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Raise more error details to calling client

When an error occurs in a service in CICS, an ABEND ASRA for instance, it would be very helpful if the description of the error was raised up in the detail field up to the API calling client. For instance, instead of of receiving just ""errorMessa...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Allow CICS resource security to also add a function component.

Currently, if a user is permitted to a specific resource, they can use that resource regardless of context. An example may be that a user is authorized to write to, or read from a transient data queue as it may form part of an application. I may w...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Provide option to copy zFS logs to VSAM files

Team, Please add functionality into z/OS Connect code to provide an option to copy the zFS logs to VSAM Files. Thanks, Pawan.
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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