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Provide version or timestamp to validate a program

There is a need to validate that a CICS application program hasn't changed when it moves through a CD pipeline. So some sort of version or timestamp is required.
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

batch Programs called through SYSIN

Kindly refer case for example of batch programs called through control sysin.
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Add support to EDCDSECT for generating Doxygen-compatible comments

We have a product that has many data areas in common between C/C++ code and Assembler code. We generate the C/C++ header files from the Assembler DSECTs using the EDCDSECT utility provided by z/OS XL C/C++. We generate documentation for the C/C++ ...
almost 8 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 21 Planned for future release

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT not smart enough

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT is checking INDOUBT Threads of DB2, but obviously the check are not going deep enough. We had an Indoubt Thread, which had already a status after an recover: ABORTED-H From Mainframe site there is nothing which can be done add...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Deinstallation of IBM Installaion Manager products doesn't clean up the package group directories

After deinstalloation of IBM Installaion Manager products, the package group directories are not deleted. This is the same behaviour with all Software installed by Installation Manager and therefore seems to be a Problem with the Installation Mana...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Inbound CICS transaction tracking for SNA or IP Sockets connection

Many big bank customers in Asia Pacific have applications like core banking and credit card applications still using SNA or IP Sockets as the inbound connection to CICS transactions, they have interest on Instana's observability especially the tra...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Addition to Personalize my Workspace in IDz

On a new page of the Personalize my Workspace wizard we would like the option to add User Specified Pages. There are some settings which we want to change when switching to a new workspace, not just for the SCLM plugin. We don't need an interface ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Pop-up / alert message when JES job completes

Would like some form of notification (pop-up) when job completes. May be configurable to pop up or not.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Option to control resouce limiting for multiple regions from once OMEG Global member

With current feature of resource limit, we can't write separate resource limiting rules based on the region name if we use the same OMEG global member for multiple regions. Looking for an option that we can mention in resource limiting rules based...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Support for anyOf/anyOf with discriminator

Our Developers are requesting support for oneOf/anyOf with discriminator support as provided in openAPI v3.. I've found that this type of capability had been requested in 2016 and 2017 RFEs and was declined -- adding a new RFE to express continued...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

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