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Request to retain PSB and DBD COMMENTS in IMS Explorer toolset & IMS Catalog

Travelers needs both the IMS Explorer toolset and the IMS Catalog to retain PSB/DBD COMMENTS. We have historical tracking comments at the top of our PSBs and DBDs. The comments we want to keep are at the top. We don't care about the ones in the mi...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to group remote systems and filters

Add ability to group filters and collapse and expand the groups in Remote Systems View.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Define a new HATS variable which will contain the highlighted text

Opening a file in an Editor, we would want to get the value of the highlighted text. For example, in the JCL editor, highlight one data set name, then with a right click this would pull in that data set name to an action.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

CL/Supersession Danish language Support

We have 2 customers using Supersession, where we have translated all relevant panels from English to Danish. What we have found is there is often PTF's which update these panels we've updated, so we need track changes to these panels via SMP/E use...
almost 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Blockmode in IDz editors

In PL/I (and properbly Cobol) editors the blockmode-function is very slow if you select say 500-800 lines. If you pass about 1000 lines it will just hang IDz.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

EPLI V4.3 generated code compares badly to OS PL/I V2.3 generated code

In a very grey past, I was taught that the best way to initialize an array of structures was to use either array_of_struc(1) = '';array_of_struct(*) = array_of_struct(1); or, if this initialisation had to be done multiple times, to create a STATIC...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

z/VM support for EMC Cinder Driver for SCSI LUNs

A customer wants to have IBM Cloud Orchestrator create/manage SCSI LUNs for z/VM Linux using EMC DASD. Currently it's not supported(certified) to use EMC DASD for ICO - only IBM DASD/SVC for FCP/SCSI.
about 8 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 5 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Data reduction system-wide CPU and mils enhancements

Request the following NEW metrics in data reduction reports to allow for easier tracking of transactional workload once LP workload increases:1) System avg Smoothed Adjusted CPU. Avg calculated for in-use (not fenced) i/streams2) System avg "Trans...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Ability to track older version of compiled cobol code

My customer is interested in tracking other versions of Cobol below 5.2. They have a utility to run against there cobol loadlibs that produces the different levels and counts but they have no way of determining when and how often they are used. Th...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Not under consideration

Server Clustering for RESTful Administration Services

Today the RESTful Administration Interface only administers single z/OS Connect server instances. WAS Liberty does have server clustering capabilities. For those who designed a High availability z/OS Connect solution, clustering would be a great f...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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