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Open big sysout whith IDZ

We have sysout with 500000 lines or more, and we can't open it with IDZ. For big sysout it is possible to add a function for open it at line n, or for search an particular string and open it a this line ? An editor similar to "Editeur de donnée Sy...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 9 Not under consideration

Provide an option at the time of installing a component to not install tables where no reports are provided in the product.

When a component is installed give the customers the option to not install tables with no real usage or reporting built into the software and add to the documentation that these tables are just "nice to haves".
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Missing source IP in SMF record type 80 when accessing with IMS Connect

IMS Connect need to add the source IP address to SMF type 80 records to enable identification of security breaches and also to enable the use of conditional access based on source IP address.
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Debug Manager to implement sysplex awareness

Currently Debug Manager is not sysplex aware, and it depends on zExplorer which also is not sysplex aware. But some ability for debug manager to resolve the IP address of the debug client, accross the sysplex is needed in order for debug manager t...
about 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Total business impact during an IMS autoshutdown due to filling SMSGQ.We could decide whether process or not remote message

We would like to have an option to discard the remote pending messages that arrive to the IMS through the MSC Links in case of an automatic IMS shutdown. Our first option would be to have a new parameter (that we would fix during the start of an I...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 52 Not under consideration

Possibility to create entries to the cross-reference table from IDz eclipse interface

To create entries in IMS Transaction and User ID Cross Reference Table, users have to use the ISPF menus in the IBM z/OS Debugger Utilities. We would like to have this feature/possibility through the Eclipse interface as well. In IDz, the idea is ...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

GDPS to support multiple consistency group for e-CKD devices per GDPS license

As of today, GDPS only supports one consistency group for e-CKD devices per GDPS license, however it would be nice if customers could create multiple consistency group for e-CKD devices under a single GDPS license, that will allow customer to mana...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

Default value type setting in IMS Catalog for Explorer inserts

Modify the IMS Catalog to have default values for field statements, that is: spaces, low values, zeros, zoned, etc. This would then be used by IMS Explorer Suite for inserts when a field value is not specified. For Example on this "Insert into MS3...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

We ask for an new GEOPLEX Domain definition to support Three sites.

We use GDPS/MTMM and we need to support a true three site setup with three CECs and single lpars running on one of the three, but with GDPS support for having the LPAR moved between the three sites.We are basically looking for a solution as illust...
over 6 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration

New PyCSM and pyds8k packages to support IBM disk migrations

IBM Disk management team is making use of Python for disk migrations and we need additional Python packages installed to downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net We were asked by IBM to get the following for the disk management tools: PyCSM https://pypi.org/...
7 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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