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Workspace with an enterprise overview about the current status for each CPC RMF DDS CPC report

We need a workspace that shows the current RTEMS selected for each CPC's RMF DDS CPC report retrieval. With that overview it would be easier to anaylse communication issues and prevent switching on the PlexView agent tracing to provide a friendly ...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support tracking of ADRXMAIA dump processing

Enable tracking and inventory for backups taken by ADRXMAIA. This is a ADRDSSU alternative which allows for a temporary data set name to be used when restoring and backing up a dataset. The final inventory should at a minimum reflect the final tar...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Planned for future release

RFE IDz Remote Systems View should be able to sort datasets alphabetical by dataset name only

RFE IDz Remote Systems View should be able to sort datasets alphabetical by dataset name only and not by type-based order like when listing a mix of non-migrated and migrated (DFSMShsm HMIGRATE) datasets. This is currently by design. No doubt, if ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

Take Vector Registers into account in the Debug Tool's "Registers"-View

I am missing the possibility to view the vector registers when debugging an assembler program in batch using Debug Tool. The "Registers"-View from the "Debug"-Category should make the vector registers available for display and changes in their ful...
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Support BIDI in DB2 REST API

Support BIDI in DB2 REST API
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Adding IBM Deep search with ChatGPT Codex (or IBM Coding Services) by AI driven Coding training and inference ( can be Human Supervised)

Using IBM Deep search with Coding services will train the AI System for Optimized code and it will make the software development more efficient in coding, testing, tracking and debugging. Also may be add the AI driven DevOps Orchestration
over 1 year ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 11 Not under consideration

Global Transaction Support needed for .NET ODBM Development

We would like the .NET ODBM capability to be able to handle both LOCAL and GLOBAL transaction processing just as the JAVA IMS Universal Drivers offer both capabilities.
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

Enhance HOD/HACP EE to provide hooks into custom JavaScript functions

Enhance the 3270 emulator capability of HOD/HACP EE to provide an optional client side "hook" that can trigger a customer written JavaScript function when the emulator's end-user presses a function key (e.g. F8/PF8). The custom Javascript function...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

RSE idle timeout for edit and browse file as separate configuration (not as common config)

Hello, Recently we have changed the idle session time out to 15 minutes in IBM explorer for z/OS(RSED AQUA), this had resulted in problem for certain developers and analysts as it frequently timeout when they switch back and forth between IDE and ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

Issue WTO message for impending certificate expiration

Our CTG customer has requested that CTG for z/OS be enhanced to issue a WTO command every x minutes prior to the CTG SSL server certificate expiring. The customer wants to define a JVM property such as com.ibm.ctg.ssl.certificate.expiration.warnin...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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