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Ability to manually disable protective mechanisms like QHA

This is to request manual ability to disable various protective mechanisms in GDPS, for example automatic QHA on GDPS/PPRC resynch/failback. We recently had an issue PMH 13736 BR 122 where pathgroups were left online to an LPAR that was already do...
about 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

More easily configure the configuration of a userbuild

The configuration of a userbuild under IDZ requires, among other things, access paths for the groovy script and for the workspace and the output space.These input fields should be optional and you should be able to type them or copy values into them.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 4 Future consideration

Keep configuration of a userbuild under IDZ in Preferences

The configuration of a userbuild under IDZ should be kept in the preferences. These parameters are not often modified but they must be re-entered regularly for each new project.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

zUnit to open test Editor quicker

Our applications typically have many programs and big copys. This causes that opening the zUnit Test Editor is very slow. With a certain program it took more than 2 minutes when opening with IDz v15.0.5 client, and around 30 seconds with IDz v16 c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Hovering Over Array Variables During a Remote Debug Session Returns the Subscripted Value

While using the Remote Debugger, the hover feature should display the value of the array element referenced by the subscript variable. For example, an array called DATA-CHAR consists of five elements containing the following values in order 'A', '...
almost 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Menu Manager output dialog persistence

Allow user to perform other activities in IDz while the Menu Manager output dialog is displayed. Currently, if there are results shown in the output dialog that the user needs to reference for other activities, users need to close the dialog befor...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Support alternate jobname for HVT volser tasks

When the primary HVT tape server tasks initiates a volume specific function (mount, xfer) it starts a subordinate task with command S servertask.Vvolser. The result is that when capturing CPU usage statistics everything shows up under the serverta...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Identify .jar file manifest dates to identify old code

Most .jar files have a manifest that contains information about the package. This includes package date. This information is helpful in identifying old version of things like Apache servers.Detail info about manifest:https://docs.oracle.com/javase...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Externalize the DFSDFxxx PROCLIB values at IMS initialization

Externalize the DFSDFxxx PROCLIB values at IMS initialization. Currently the FastPath section of DFSDFxxx member is externalized when IMS starts, but we would like the ability to view the remainder of the parameters, to identify what was used at I...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Double click on a Special Name should show markers where the special name is being used

When you double click on a variable in a program, IDz shows you where it is used in the program (small yellow rectangles next to the right hand scrollbar - see attachment 1). But when you double click on a Special Name it doesn't show you where it...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration