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SMF26BYT and SMFBYU do not appear in Common Data Provider

Could you add these 2 fields please in the product DEFS ?
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Detect column of THEN and ELSE in IDz Code Review for COBOL

One of our installation rules for coding "best practice" COBOL programs requires that the programmer codes the (optional) THEN keyword and the (required, if applicable) ELSE keyword in the same column as the corresponding IF keyword. Statements fo...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

cazcnfg0: not all config statements accept symbols

in de cazcnfg0 parameter files there are statements where you can use system symbols which is very handy to make this parameter file system independant. But some other statements do not accept system symbols which makes it very confusing. The idea...
about 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide AT-TLS Support for EKMF Web

A recent pen test by IBM XForce performed on our z/OS systems identified a vulnerability where the TCP port used by EKMF was not using https. In attempting to remediate this condition it was discovered that secure https browser access to EKMF-Web ...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 3 Functionality already exists

COBOL function hbound() for tables

COBOL has no easy way to check a table index or subscript against the OCCURS [... TO] {n} TIMES value. You can define an OCCURS constant to check against, but this requires application maintenance correctly preserve the correspondence when the tab...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Expand delimited length from 255 to 1024

This would help eliminate "DWO378E DELIMITED STRING IS TOO LONG, GREATER THAN 255 CHARACTERS IN LENGTH" when working with PIPEs, and perhaps other areas as well.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Boolean support and bit manipulation

Support for Standard COBOL "Boolean support and bit manipulation".This includes (but is not limited to those I might have overlooked):- Boolean data PICTURE clause, i.e.: USAGE DISPLAY PICTURE 1.- USAGE BIT, i.e.: USAGE BIT PICTURE 1(8).- GROUP-US...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

GUI usability improvements for UKO

We need to provide the UKO authorisation roles to a group of users with little knowledge of key management. They need a tool that is easy and intuitive to use. So the GUI needs to be clearer. I think it would be very useful if users of the UKO GUI...
4 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Kerberos support for pcomm 3270 sessions

For 5250 Sessions kerberos is implemented and available. Since we have customers running pcomm to connect to z-Series with 3270 sessions we would like to have kerberos support for the 3270 session types.
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

Add zCEE Requester support for text/plain responses

zCEE Requester currently only supports JSON responses. Please add support for text/plain responses.
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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