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177 VOTE

Develop the functionality in File Manager to choose the encoding with a file should be downloaded to a PC through its export to desktop function

BBVA is a very important global bank with operations in Spain, Mexico, Turkey, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, etc. BBVA is the largest bank in Mexico, employing over one thousand of mainframe developers. These developers use IBM Developer for z for th...
5 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 8 Future consideration
138 VOTE

Configuration file for P2 installations

I propose the inclusion of a configuration file for P2 installations which allows, for example: adding a z/OS connection by default which would allow me to distribute the tool to developers as an installation by Installation Manager allows. Basica...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 8 Future consideration

Create a z/OSMF interface for configuring credentials and to send/receive from the cloud bucket

Create User interfaces in z/OSMF for: The user to enter and verify their cloud credentials (same as in the ISPF panel). The user to look at the bucket contents and be able to download from the bucket into z/OS. To make it possible for the user to ...
19 days ago in IBM z/OS DFSMS Cloud Data Manager 1 Future consideration

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
6 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

IntelliMagic Vision with DS8A00 with FCM4 shows incorrect values at "% of the real capacity that is allocated"

DS8A00 with FCM4 has additional reporting data (like writable capacity) IntelliMagic Vision "Allocated capacity in the storage pool" shows correct values IntelliMagic Vision "% of the real capacity that is allocated" shows incorrect values High Ri...
about 2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Future consideration

CSM supports Metro Mirror with Site 4 replication, can GDPS support this configuration, too?

According to DORA regulation, it is possible to have a 2-region infrastructure with the possibility to have a synchronous copy between them, an MTMM 4-Site. This gives one the chance to do a region switch with no disruption to the customers. Nowad...
11 months ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

As an IMS systems programmer, I want the ability to make messages sent by IMS back to the client (e.g. DFS3688I) visible to operators and automation on z/OS.

Actually, to have an alerting when a transaction reaches his expire time we have, in the OTMA client descriptor (DFSYDTx), activated the parameter TODUMP with the option YES This solution is no longer efficient because when the issue arises our MP...
3 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

A new compilation option (rule) DISPLAYCHECK is required

Dear Madam/Sir, In the frame of ensuring enhanced code quality, we would like to implement a new COBOL compiler option (rule) so an error or warning to be issued in case of existing DISPLAY statements in a program. The new parameter could be DISPL...
about 1 month ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration
159 VOTE

TWS High Availability

We are working with high availability in the customer's datacenter, so tests were done with TWS simulating an lpar outage where TWS was active in a sysplex. The standby controller takes over work correctly for new jobs that are submitted, but jobs...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration