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GDPS Global Mirror volume dynamic expansion

Provide capability from GDPS to dynamically expand a volume in a GDPS session and modify all the relationships from a single step.
over 1 year ago in GDPS 3 Not under consideration

zOS Connect enable generics in zosConnectAPI name construct

in order to secure API using the authorizationInterceptor for access by different teams we currently have to specify every API and define the relevant access. With naming standards we can group these much more efficiently using generics for exampl...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Debug Tool should start up when transactions get an AICA

If the application gets an AICA (CICS), the only message the developer gets is a connection lost. We figured out that the AICA is explicit trapped in the Debug Tool. But we want the AICA to be passed to the frontend.
over 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

When the user send the character x'10' and others, with some emulators, CL/SUPERSSESION chokes

The Telnet 3270 emulator (Quick3270 Secure) send the ASCII character x'10' CL/SUPERSESSION cut the connection and choke. We have suffered the same problem with other emulator programs.
over 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Database connection there should be filter to see only selected database

Database connection there should be filter to see only selected database not all . Couldn't find any option to put filter . Please find attached screen print. All developer will get benifits.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

ibm_db to be shipped with supported driver

IBM should ship the the ibm_db driver with their Python for z/OS. Underway is a DBA modernization initiative where we are bringing in modern tooling and languages such as Python for z/OS and in particular the ibm_db library for communicating with ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 2 Not under consideration

Customer is issuing INGIMS with a transaction as the command and getting DFS165 hh:mm:ss COMMAND VERB IS INVALID

INGIMS apparently passes IMS commands using this Multiple Console Support (MCS) which we had enabled by defining the IMS parameter CMDMCS=Y (the default was N). Basically INGIMS will simply prefix whatever has been specified with the IMSsubid and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

DataGrid Column Resize

according to this Request in the EGL Forum:https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14584129&#14584129
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Extension of NEWC in CICS

We need an extension to CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY. It should be possible that that this command could be restricted to a certain dataset or LIBRARY e.g. CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY DSN('A.B.C') or CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY LIB(ABC).
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Automation to import workspace settings between versions of IDz

Thru this RFE, request IBM team to consider providing an option that can help to migrate settings from past work space to the new work space. In the current world, we recommend develops to either 1) make a copy of their existing work space and use...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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