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ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time

ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time For security reasons, my client explicitly requests the use of Windows authentication, not SQL. However, currently, the only sup...

Provide capability to easily find a CICS transaction without knowing which project contains it

In large shops with a large application inventory, a developer trying to understand a transaction flow in CICS; would need to be able to easily find that transaction and generate a Transaction call graph. Today, the developer has to know which pro...

Add support for UTF-8 in buildclient

When cloning sources from git, they come as UTF-8 encoding. Build client requires source code in cp1252. It would be good to add support for utf-8 for sources, to avoid creating workarounds during git clones