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Please add a digital signature for program bundled with IDz \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe

Currently there is no digital signature when viewing the properties of the file \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe in Windows. Setting a digital signature on \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe indicates that the program has been created by IBM and has not been tampered with.
18 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

Add SQL builder in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support some of our developers are missing the possibility to graphicly build SQL query with SQL Query Builder, if possible bring this functionality into IDz 16 SQL editor.
18 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

Support for User defined function in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support we are missing the support to work DB2 User defined functions trough IDz UI. It would be an improvement to have the ability to work with and debug those for the de...
18 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 0 Submitted

Support for Cobol stored procedure in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support we are missing the support to see, execute and debug Cobol stored procedure trough IDz UI. It would be easier for the developer to execute it as it's supposed to b...
18 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 0 Submitted

CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; Log4j2; No intermediate DASD store.

CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; No intermediate DASD store. Splunk provides direct to Splunk via HTTP. This would be good since no intermediate Data Store or Joblog overhead. Also not to worry about file space at the CTG le...
18 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Submitted

Use Flash Express as swap storage for VM Guests

The Linux (compute) LPAR can access to Flash Express Storage. Could be very useful in terms of performance to use this storage as provider for vm's swap disks.The swap disk is generally included into ICIC flavors, very interesting if it can be dep...
19 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

DEFV Batch Function

Is it possible to include the SMS parameters such as DATACLAS, MGMTCLAS and STORCLAS to the output? It would make much easier to create similar datasets.
20 days ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

allow a series of accounted times of a list be what contradicts a system toward an individual.

it lets those you are intending to contact be reached by terms necessary. it allows what was interacted with again helpful.
21 days ago in IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack / z/OS Cloud Broker 0 Submitted

Improve the collection of IPIC and CICS traces

We can only enable IPIC and CICS traces by setting IPIC_DATA_TRACE=1 and CICSTRACE = 1 environment variables and restarting TX regions afterwards. This usage is not practical in case of an issue that we cannot reproduce as we don't know the cause ...
24 days ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Submitted