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Same preview for content of variables when debugging

When Debugging a Programm, the user can inspect the variables in the Variables- and in the Montiors-View.In both views there are 2 previews for variables, one which is always visible and one which Shows the Content of the selected variable. Curren...
over 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Expand the Include usage filter with Variable

The variable use of includes in programs can currently only be recognized with difficulty through the variables use of a specific program via a manual view. With a variety of variables in the particular / specified program, it is very tedious. Wit...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

Correct the indent by the Command Surround with…

Select one or more full source lines. Then run Surround with... and use "2 IF". 1) The Result is that the IF and end-if start in column 1 and not in Area B.2) The end-if is not in a new line
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

System Policy Rule for Pipeline Disable

System Policy rule for Pipeline Enable/Disable to replace an existing RTA rule.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

IDz Refactor Extract Section without Paragraph

If you use refactor Extract Paragraph you can also create a new Section. But if you do so you must fill the "New Paragraph Name". We want that we can create a new Section without a Paragraph. This new function should be a new entry in the Refactor...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Usage of DSA by CICS module

We had a CICSTS 5.4 pmr (32005,000,834) which described an observation that there were pockets of 9K of storages that were getmained below the 16M line. Can these 9k CDSA storages be moved to above the 16M line ?From the CICS L2 diagnosis of the t...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Add field containing CICS BAC batch request utility job name to XPI commarea passed to CICS BAC user exit programs.

We are converting from DADS to CBAC and need to know which batch job is sending the request to CICS. This information is used to ensure production and non-production jobs is not submitted to the wrong environment.
about 3 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 4 Delivered

Enhance Copy/paste of dataset to include SMS details

When creating a new dataset via copy and paste in IDZ Remote Systems View, the user has no options except file name. The dialog is driven via a GUI and you right click and select COPY and then right click and select paste - no option to specify un...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered

RPP design explorer behavior using pacbase line commands

In pacbase, the user could type, for example "p abc123" to quickly get to the program abc123, or "s ab00" for segment ab00, or "e abcdef" for element abcdef, etc. Having this same behavior in RPP's design explorer would make accessing a design muc...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

CTCz zEDC compression for VTE function

CTCz Virtual Tape Emulator(VTE) has compression function when storing the data, but it does not use zEDC. Would you add zEDC compression support?
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Delivered

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