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ADDI - Automatically provide Project list aftert startup

When starting AD the Project List is empty. Users manually need to provision the list of Projects each time AD is started.This seems a pointless action since all the connection information is present in the IDE. We would like to see the project li...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Mass renaming of projects by command line

We need to have a command line for renaming projects in bulk instead of going through Build Configuration and renaming projects one by one.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Add filter in Build Configuration and Build Client

Need a filter addition in which we can directly search for the name of a project or a part.In Build Client at the small pop-up that opens to select a project and at the Build Configuration level in the list of projects.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Payload string values that are too long cause Web Service and API runtime errors

CICS requires a maximum length to be specified (implicitly or explicitly) for all string fields in Web Services and APIs. However, interfacing systems often don't have max length restrictions on strings (especially if they are not mainframe-based ...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Retrieve multiple IMS segments in a single JDBC Call to reduce network trips.

getUniqueDBRecord JDBC call which is able to get a root and multiple children segment types. GetUniqueDBRecord with [String: segment, String: parent, String: ssa, integer: limit, …] getUniqueDBRecord([“ROOT”, “”, ssaRoot, 1, “KID1”, “ROOT”, “”, 1,...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 4 Not under consideration

Cluster level view of systems (for z/OS Connect)

For resiliency, best practice is to run multiple production z/OS Connect servers in a group and this must be managed as a single entity. To support this, we need an overall view of how this service (as a cluster) is performing, and the ability to ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Planned for future release

Enhance DFSDASP0 to not suppress messages when it issues the RACF AUTH call (when ODBASE=Y)

It was determined that we will rely on APSB security checking to control access for applications using the DVM product to access IMS data. This is working as expected. However, we are only getting the following in our system log:DFS2855A APSB SECU...
over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Future consideration

PCOMM/HACP support to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop

PCOMM needs to be installed in Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop. SF Case # TS006682454.
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

SSRANGE with Suboptions

SSRANGE can test tables with one dimension. It's not able to test each row and column of a multi-dim-table. It would be nice to have an option with can test multi-dimensional tables.For example:SSRANGE(STD) is the same like SSRANGE in presenceSSRA...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Expand all option in z/OS-Projects / MVS-Subprojects

We would like to have a context menu option to expand all items below the selected item in the z/OS Projects View. E.g. Right-click on a z/OS Project, MVS Subproject or a Library shall expand all sub-items
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

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