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Z Unit supporting POINTERs in Copybooks

Z Unit UI needs to be able to support POINTERs + LENGTHS for both Batch and Online. Ie, it should make the area addressed by the pointers available to the UI, both in and outbound from the programs being tested.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Future consideration

Only able to record testcases from a single loadmodule

We are having the same program linked into multiple loadmodules. We would like to record testcases from all loadmodules, but after the first recording, the record dialogue has the Program name locked. And according to instrcuctions, the "Program n...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 0 Future consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Improve documentation of the DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD / DAY-TO-YYYYMMDD intrinsic functions

Hi, The samples given in the documentation of the intrinsic function DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD all correspond to the same use case: the year of argument-1 is greater than or equal to the start year, (without a century), of the interval, therefore it is the...
7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhanced JCCQ monitoring

IBM zWS issues message EQQZ106W for JCCQ, for example EQQZ106W 012 % OF QUEUE JCCQ IN USE If the trend is increasing, zWS will issue more EQQZ106W messages, but if it's decreasing or dropped below the threshold, we never know. There needs to be a ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Create POST Query via JOBNAME in REST API Offering for IBM zWS

The REST API for zWS needs a POST command query that is primarily driven by the JOBNAME as in PANEL ID EQQASELP. This query should present all the properties/attributes of the job.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Provide hooks for Pre-provisioning to integrate Quota restrictions

Provide hooks for Pre-provisioning so we can integrate with our license Quota restrictions mechanism.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

User ID as filter criteria

Like in any other bank, the customer has different business channels like: branch office, ATMs, internet, etc. and all the IMS transactions coming from a given channel carry the same user ID (a group in fact). For instance: BOFFI01, BOFFI02, BOFFI...
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

NetView CANZLOG browse filter condition

We are planning to use 'BR CANZLOG' with several filters. When we issue 'BR CANZLOG' command with several filters, we get results meet all filters' requirements.For example, If we specify 'BR CANZLOG OPERID=AUTOIMS MSGID=DFS', only DFSxxx messages...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Debugger Profile Service (EQAPROF) to implement sysplex awareness

We only want to use a VIPA for the communication between IDz and the mainframe. With IBM z/OS Debugger version 16.0.1 IBM added sysplex-awareness, so now the last missing part that is not sysplex-aware is the EQAPROF. So please add this support.
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add the support of required field in APIS Body

We need to force APIs consummer to provide mandatory fields in the JSON body of an APIS.This is really important for APIS that use a MQ service because in this case we have no way to check fields before the message is PUT in the queue by the servi...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Future consideration

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