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Allow JSON(ENCODING()) to accept CCSID

Recently implemented compiler option JSON(ENCODING(EBCDIC)) only supports the current codepage. We use code page 037 by default. However, the JSON we work with needs to be 1047 due to interactions with other tools. The square brackets are especial...
8 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Do a Logical Or on the target of an Execute instruction

When analysis uses the in-storage copy of the Execute target, it usually only displays the first byte of the operand and sometimes displays the wrong operand entirely. When the Ex target is an SS instruction then the length can only be determined ...
11 days ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

JSONGET support for null objects

JSON text includes a JSON object that is sometimes valued and sometimes null. When the object is null, we receive ONCODE 5084. Reference case TS016062055 Given the following structure: Dcl 1 outStruc , 3 name0 char(10) , 3 name1 , 5 first char(10)...
about 1 month ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Update NAF cache threshold dynamically

KLSOPTNF is an excellent tool for investigating which sessions are being started and by whom, and is a lot faster than using SMF data from tape for the NAF reporting tool. Recently we upgraded our largest Supersession instances to v310, and after ...
about 1 month ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Planned for future release

DEFV Batch Function

Is it possible to include the SMS parameters such as DATACLAS, MGMTCLAS and STORCLAS to the output? It would make much easier to create similar datasets.
about 1 month ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Handle multiple lines of header data

For HATS screen combinations, give HATS the ability to capture multiple rows of header data, and keep those separated from the actual table data. Today HATS can only extract one row of header data. Many host screens with tabular data have two or m...
about 2 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Add last screen handling for Screen Combinations

Add the capability to screen combinations last screen processing such that data may not extracted on the last screen if the data that is displayed is repeated. This happens when the last screen of data is only recognized when a PF key is hit and t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Option to generate a client interface from a REST OPEN API JSON file

it's very usefull to generate the client interface from a SOAP WSDL file. But now EGL also supports REST OPEN API, and generates these REST OPEN API JSON files, which is great.But the other way around this isn't possible. We would like to see that...
2 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Option to generate REST Open API Service JSON file without REST RPC lines

We want to create a OPEN API REST Service project without REST RPC. At this moment when a JSON file is created there are also REST RPC lines in it.As a result of that Postman uses this RST RPC Endpoint.
2 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

JSONGET handling for null

Please provide options for how to handle special value ‘null’ while parsing a JSON document using JSONGET* functions. It can be important to understand the difference between zero and null in numeric fields. Currently there is no way to interpret ...
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release