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Editing a copybook : no warning when usgin parenthesis

Hello, At first it was the Case number : TS023173721 (you can see screenshots).  When we used parenthesis in a copybook, because the cobol program use the instruction "COPY copybook_name REPLACING ==(PREF)== BY ==EA00==", there is a warning i...
1 day ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Submitted

NONASGN attribute should be inherited from the base variable for DEFINED variables

Modifying a NONASGN variable should never be possible.
1 day ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS Submitted

CICS DFHCSDUP utility with an INSTALL option.

Since a significant number of our clients use the DFHCSDUP utility for maintenance, having an INSTALL option for CEDA resources would be highly practical; it would eliminate the need to use SDSF batch as an additional step during RDO/DFHCSD mainte...
2 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Under review

Provide a Clearer Error Message When the MFAWEB Certificate Expires

When the certificate used by the IBM z Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) web services expires, accessing MFAWEB results in the browser error ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR. Instead of this generic error, display a more meaningful message, such as "Certifi...
2 days ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication Submitted

The HOD scratchpad feature needs the ability to change font size

The scratchpad that was implemented in HOD 15+ provides a good way to save off information but it uses a fixed size font that can be hard to read for some people. We are requesting that the interface be modified to support the ability to change th...
2 days ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software Submitted

Need the ability to change the font size in the scratchpad

The scratchpad that was implemented in HOD 15+ provides a good way to save off information but it uses a fixed size font that can be hard to read for some people. We are requesting that the interface be modified to support the ability to change th...
2 days ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Submitted

Support Correct Korean Text Display in Compiler Diagnostics on EUC-KR Terminals in IBM Open XL C/C++ for AIX

NH, one of South Korea's major banks, is currently migrating its application development environment from IBM Classic XL C/C++ to IBM Open XL C/C++ for AIX.The migration project has been progressing successfully with strong support from the IBM co...
3 days ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ Submitted

Have the agent product a message when there is no active automation manager

We recently removed the GDPS tower from zSystems Automation setup. After recycling the agent, Z Systems Automation would not initialize. There were no indicators in the log as to what the issue might be. All we saw was SA initialization starting m...
3 days ago in IBM Z System Automation Submitted

Allow script filters to persist for duration of NetView session

Sometimes, a user will go in and out of planned actions multiple times when working with GDPS. New in GDPS 4.8 is the ability to use the filter command to show specific scripts. This is a handy feature, but it would be even better if it retained t...
3 days ago in GDPS Submitted

Provide a new GDPS option to optionally disable SNMP interface checking

We were told by IBM that the SNMP interface from GDPS to the Disk subsystem was not mandatory, and that the GDPS monitors provide sufficient alerting in detecting disk related issues. Therefore we did not setup the SNMP trapping of alerts from the...
3 days ago in GDPS Submitted