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Implement: 01 var1 LIKE var2.

Often variables are defined in copybooks or DCLGEN copybooks. There are times when the definition in that copybook changes slightly and it would be nice if a developer could simply rely on the compiler to use the picture of the copybook variable a...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

IBM Debug: Improved sort for Monitor Expression handling of array entries

Hi IBM, Please improve the sort order in the Debugger Remote GUI in IDz within the Monitors view. Currently the sort button sorts all expressions on the displayed string. This leads table/array entries to be sorted not by the numeric but by the st...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Display dataspaces alloacte for region

In the classic interface under U.K we could see the size of the dataspace allocation for the region. I did not see this facility in the E3270. For tracking the growth and managing the size of our utilization of data tables to is very important to ...
8 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Dynamic facility to re-order columns on summary screens

When dealing with Summary screens, to reorder the screen or add/remove columns from the screen requires that we edit the workspace in the WENU, which is difficult and affects all users of the system. We would like the ability to change column orde...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Specify Mirror transid when MQ Bridge DPLs is implemented

When the cics mq bridge is used in DPL mode , the program embedded in the mq message is executed ( generally in a TOR ). If this program is defined as remote ( with dynamic parm set to yes ) , it will be executed in a AOR with the mirror transacti...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

CPSM WUI - TCP/IP service cipher name

Recently we've started to keep SSL ciphers in a xml file rather than coding at the tcpip service definition. The problem is, we can not see the cipher name,being used by tcpip service, via cpsm wui. When we click the ssl cipher suit codes at the w...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Increase ease of use for updating SYSLIB in remote property group definitions

Currently the SYSLIB definition in property groups is presented as a single field containing several blank-separated data set names.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

SAIOM add support for SIP telephony to replace physical voice cards, allow SAIOM to be run as a VM.

We currently leverage SAIOM voice functionality in an IVR format to provide end-user automated tasks for the Operations team. we have SAIOM v2.1.2 running on bare-metal x86 Windows 2012 with Intel Dialogic Voice cards. we need to move off bare-met...

Provide comprehensive Documentation on how the Product works, such as a Redbook.

Presently the IzPCA documentation is mainly about how to install and run the software, or how to be a Capacity Planner, not how the product actually functions. Without comprehensive documentation, customers have to depend on the vendor for ongoing...
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Future consideration

INGLKUP and DISPTREE to work through HasMember APGs

Please update the DISPTREE and INGLKUP REQ=ANALYSE to work through APG HasMember relationships. Neither indicate relationships that are via HasMember groups.
over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration