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Restore to last session list view

We would like an option (at user level) in order to be able to restore the last session list displayed with the cursor positioned on Current session without changing the order of sessions (as KLSOPTSH does)
about 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL - MDECK(NOCOMPILE) must produce a cross-reference COPY/BASIS report

A COBOL program compiled with the MDECK(NOCOMPILE) option for the purpose of expanding COPYBOOKs, handling text replacements, and incidentally handling conditional compilation directives, produces a listing that is limited to the list of options f...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

Enhance NV WINDOW command to return selected data back to caller

Hi NV development, Please enhance NV WINDOW/CNME1505 to return user selected data on the screen back to the caller either in a task global variable or other means. We do not want to develop a VIEW panel for every Exec we write. We would like to le...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

z/OS 2.1 JCL-Variables GET/SET via COBOL Program

It would be nice, if a COBOL Program could set or get an JCL-Variable, because of exploiting the new z/OS V2.1 Variable Handling.This could bring some benefit for larger Batch-Applications with many Steps and Jobs.
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

PHASEIN Support for JAVA programs running under Liberty Profile

The versioning and alias processing options that are presently available for deploying new Liberty Profile JAVA bundles in CICS require changes to the pre-existing CICS RDO definitions, this is not something that is desired when promoting a new ve...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Empty PropertyGroup for Subprojects

When we drag and drop a PO Dataset from Remote Systems View into a zOS Sub Project, the Property Group changes to the Property Group of the Sub Project & we think that it should retain the properties of the PO-Datei and not be replaced by thos...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Record CICSPlex SM WLM routing decision to CICS SMF for post processing

CICSPlex SM Workload management should record routing algorithm decisions to SMF for post processing by products like CICS Performance Analyzer. In addition to having the capability to record routing decisions to SMF, customers should have the fle...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

ANALYZE command

The following restriction should be removed (excerpt from Debug Tool, Reference and Messages Version 11, Chapter 5, Debug Tool Commands): The ANALYZE command displays the process of evaluating an expression and the data attributes of any intermedi...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

File Manager EDIT Allows PACK ON while ISPF Global configuration option Global_Disable_Pack=YES in effect

We have an ISPF Configuration modified via usermod where we have enabled Global_Disable_Pack=YES so that no ISPF users are able to create PDS Member(s) with PACK ON , however realized File Manager EDIT allow users with PACK ON on the systems where...
over 3 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add Member name information

IBM Application Discovery v5.0.4.2 onward Product is used for e.g. cross referencing usage of Programs and JCLs etc. to perform in depth analysis for change impact or in case of Operational issues. We would like to see a feature to select programs...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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