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Need a field (attribute), of the TASK resource table, which allows me to have the CPU time of a "THREADSAFE" task.

In a threadsafe application, all DB2 Requests stays on L8 TCB.The cputime is only going to get updated when we come off the L8 TCB. (If it were a quasirent applicatoion and switched back to QR after every DB2 request, the cputime would be accumula...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Support EHLLAPI in HACP EE

Support for EHLLAPI is mandatory requirement for some customers to upgrade to HACP EE as it is used extensively in HOD
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Single Sign On with SAML and Microsoft AD in HACP EE

Single Sign On with SAML:Provide a single sign on feature in HACP EE with SAML as the protocol and Microsoft AD as the directory server.LDAP is used as a protocol of choice for on-prem authentication for tools like HOD.HACP EE is a web application...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

Support LDAP with Microsoft AD for HOD

Support data store in Microsoft AD using LDAP for HOD.Currently it is already supported for IBM LDAP Server.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

IDz USS support for ENDEVOR

USS support for ENDEVOR which is already possible from the z/OS host ISPF environment should also be possible for the IDz client
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

ContentAssist enhancements

Some enhancements for the pli-contentAssist:-in many cases the Content assist doesn't Show proposals, at least built-ins and preprocessor Statements should be shown all the time-group the Content of the contentAssist in several pages, if working, ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Ability to auto kill job once deadline is reached

This option is useful for jobs which are running long and can be auto killed so the successor job can run automatically.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Ability to send job late message to the error panel

Ability to track job is running late (via deadline) where the message is sent to the error panel (HANDLING OPERATIONS ENDED IN ERROR). This way there is a central place where operators / schedulers / developers can see what jobs are in error and a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

in Healthcenter authorization.file It should be able to have more than a readWrite value.

if there is a option for readOnly. you can have users that only is allowed to read and other that can read + ask JVM to take dumps.
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

show tooltips for built-ins when coding in RDz

Hi!It would be useful to have the description for e.g. built-ins shown in the Content-assist for pli and Cobol, like Java.For templates the description is already shown.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration