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Provide functionality to view HEX format for a full screen.

Many of our applications rely on binary data and HEX bitmaps to be analyzed. ISPF allows for developers to see an entire screen of data in HEX format. IDz, does not appear to provide this same capabillity. This is hindering developers from migrati...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Interlanguage Calls (ILC) between Java and COBOL, which allow to use the same Working Storage via different ILC calls of one COBOL program

We are modernizing our application and during this process the programs are migrated from COBOL to Java. Because it is not possible to do this in one big step, we do it component by component in many small steps. This requires that ICLs work well....
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Omegamon for z/OS needs to adjust the skip&count formula

The Omegamon for z/OS skip&count formula being used to determine which TCPIP port various Omegamon components bind to needs to be adjusted so the range of ports selected are in a more refined group of ports instead of spread out across the 65K...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

In addition to syntax checking in the Editor, please add semantic checking as well.

Semantic checking of the code in IDz Editor would make mainframe developers even more productive since they still are able to create code in IDz that passes all syntax checks without being valid code. You only see it in the JES Spoolfiles, once yo...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Assign LPAR activation profile using GDPS

We would like to be able to specify the LPAR activation profile to be used for an LPAR Activate. I see this as very similar to specifying the Load information (address & parm).
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

lengthen the USRPSW field

For security purposes, password requirements have become more stringent. A requirement for a password longer than 31 characters would not be out of the question. For these reasons I believe the 'USRPSW' field in the 'USRREC' parm should be made to...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

AT-TLS awareness for IMS Connect – client certificate RACF user propagation

With AT-TLS and Client authentication it is possible to check the certificate and map it to a RACF userid (SAFCheck Option). Db2 DDF already supports that mechanism, that is called AT-TLS aware (see AT-TLS documentation). We need an option to asso...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Initialize Cobol Language Environment

The product provides the capability to be customized with user exits. Since programming user exits with cobol is not a question of performance any more, they get rewriten from assembler programming language to cobol. Today, it is mandatory to crea...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

CC Quiesce for Planned HS

At a Planned HS and if GDPS detects CC's I would like to get an WTOR with the Information how many CC are active and the options Quiesce HS, Abort HS, Cancel CC's or Repeat the WTOR to see if there are more or less CC's active.
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 19 Not under consideration

Tolerant Reading web service requesters

Put elements not known by a SOAP/XML web service requester in their XML form in a separate container and do not validate if the the elements are defined. Only map those elements that are known.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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