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Enable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changesEnable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changes

Enable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changesCurrently, when an API endpoint has new response fields added that an API Consumer does not need, z/OS Connect API Requester will start to fail unless its API Re...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

IDz LPEX editor should ask if files need to be locked when the user start editing them.

When z/OS developer teams have the policy that files need to be locked when they start editing them. In the 'modern' editors this is asked as soon as people start modifying the source. That is the kind of behavior that we are looking for in the LP...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Additional functionality required for tagging products using "user defined fields" to be extracted by the Inquisitor

Most companies install IBM and ISV products on a single system in their environment (a product install and maintenance system). Then, using some process, propagate the product(s) on Sysres or program product volumes to other systems. Most companie...
about 11 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 5 Future consideration

Integration of an automatic check after a build / make

The idea is the automatic generation of a check after a build or a make for the administrator of AD (in MS-DOS command and GUI AD Build Client).
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support for SQL statements in in-stream data or control cards used by DB2 utilities in JCL

Tesco have JCL that executes SQL statements against DB2 tables via DB2 utilities. SQL statements are processed as SYSIN either as in-stream data, or in Control Card DSN. This information is currently not analysed, leading to incomplete information...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Collector Behavior with Partitioned Tables

Add an option to have the collector issue the following for each partitioned table before insert/update begins for that table in a commit cycle: LOCK TABLE <name> PART <#> IN EXCLUSIVE MODE; This will eliminate the need for escalation ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Rollups for MVS_ZCONNECT2_T

The transaction level detail on this table piles up quickly. We would like rollups for trending and forecasting so that the detail may be removed more quickly.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Showing originating user for request from SMU in the netlog

We are in the middle of implementing SMU for our colleagues . To see if anyone is using SMU and if so, who is using it, I noticed that the netlog does not show the actual user for a request. For example I performed a move for a movegroup, using SM...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Planned for future release

Suppress Warning Message On Recall Of Datasets

The problem is with the warning message in IDz which tells the user this may be an SCLM dataset and asks if you want to continue. We don't have this message in ISPF and we would like to have the same behavior in IDz. So what if a dataset is under ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 6 Future consideration

Enhancement suggestion for Mass Update functionality

When performing a Mass update to OPR - FEEDBACK LIMIT, can there be a filter criteria that allows to specify a DURATION time? In our installation we use duration times to determine what we want our Feedback limits to be. So for example, all jobs t...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration