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Long varchar enhancement – functionality to scroll a specified number of bytes within the column

. In Table format, scroll a specified number of bytes; similar to how PF11 (or PF10) works in Char format for flat files.
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Remove APA requirement for UID(0) when measuring JAVA

In order to obtain full information about JAVA code, APA currently either needs to run with UID(0) or else with the UID of the WAS address space being measured, which is not practical. Th use of UID(0) is being challenged by our Security standards...
about 12 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

OMEGAVIE / SLF more than 80 per line

we need more than full support of IBM 3270 (27 X 132 charactrers) for the SLF functionality.We do not want to use the scroll (left / right) for a 132 character message.
about 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

RDz support serach and replace across PDS

RDz now can only do "Search and Replace" within the same member. It should also support this function to multiple member / PDS.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Provide SMF Templates - allow SMF record selection

Opened on behalf of IBM Customer. File Manger to provide SMF Templates and allow the customer to use the templates to select specific records from SMF datasets
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Enhance EP support to include "implicitly referenced" API fields as well as API calls performed by mirror program

Current EP behavior:1. Currently, the Event Processing (EP) actual event supported fields are only those fields which have explicitly referenced in the CICS API call.Other API data which are not part of the API call are not available to the EP Ada...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

File synthesis result of a comparison of file

Result summary of the comparison of two files indicate at the copy number and the percentage differences by data
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

cpsm mas agent tasks should syncpoint occasionally

Long-running MAS agent tasks should issue occasional syncpoints, Please refer to PMR for specific problem, but anytime there is a possibility of GLUEs or URMs running under CICS internal long-running tasks, those tasks should have programmed syncp...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DT should better support a global preference (GBLPREF)-File with RDz

When you use full-screen interface a GBLPREF-file is usual and helpful to provide the users customized setup for DT, e.g. setting keys similar like a competing debugger to easily switch. This way a parallel used RDZ / Eclipse debugging will have a...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

when compare is used, the print function is not available in v8.0.3

After creating a compare, the print function is not available in v8.0.3. I searched the RDz discussion forum on IBM's site and did not find anything. Ideally, we'd like a way to print the compare results for documentation. It would also be nice if...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

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