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Support Endevor promotions in CLI

When syncing a project with Endevor thru sync service it's not possible to provide a promotion-list as you are able to to thru GUI in build configuration. This will be an enhancement for automating updates of project that receives source from seve...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Abend task if target program specified on PCT not DFHMIRS

On a DPL and Mirror Tranid Specified, Abend task if target program specified on target CICS PCT not DFHMIRS. We use a lot of zCEE and CTG. Been running into issues where CICS Administrator, specifies the target program name (application program ID...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

We would like digitally signed software downloads for the z/TPF Product Family

Enacting this policy (digitally signed software downloads) would save my team a lot of unnecessary paperwork.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Not under consideration

Product usage reporting (IDZ, z/OS explorer, ..)

We would like to be able to track who is using what product (IDZ, z/OS Explorer, Data studio, CICS explorer, MQ explorer , ....).At least, we would like to know that someone is using an IDZ licence (or RDZ, ...)
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

PL/I parser support for MACROs

PL/I parser issues warnings in the editor if there are MACROs within the INCLUDEs
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration

Delete Support for High Availability Option

The High Availability Option of IBM CL/SUPERSESSION should support the ability to push deletions of NAM and TDB database records across instances of Supersession.
over 11 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

RDZ copy host to client strips trailing blanks

RDZ copy host to client should keep trailing blanks. RDz/IDz has always done it this way. Some users can have an issue with this for data that needs to be processed in spreadsheets
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Not under consideration

ADD the posbility to use Header in the oAUTH

z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 support follows the The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework standard: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749fo . This does not specify any header than the Authorization header be flowed on the request. There is no way to confi...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Generate FROM/INTO db2_view in a pacprogram from dataagregate -gg

The standards are to use the generation of SQL EXEC statements from the -gg of dataagregate. The purpose is also to specify the -gg "a minima", usually the WHERE clause. Work is underway to bring programs that do not use this generation back up to...
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to perform actions in Aggregated Explorer Views

I am using the CICS Regions view in CICS Explorer for illustration but, to my knowledge, this applies to all Explorer aggregated views. With multiple CICS regions selected, performing a right click gives a selection list of actions that can be per...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration