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Make temporary datasets permanent and save all previous members

While using the EXPORT / IMPORT options under IMS ADMIN we noticed the following datasets are temporary. We would like to have them permanent and updated as new members are added. Currently every time we execute, members in the following datasets ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Product functionality 3 Delivered

Cobol V5/6: Additional statistics about inlining

In RFE 78496 a compiler directive to control inlining is requested.Additional to this valid RFE request an inlining statistic would be helpful. If sections/paragraphs are large and called from several places, inlining duplicates code throughout th...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Build Dashboard

Create a Dashboard showing the "complete-ness" of a Project.

Consume REST services with non EGL applications in RBD

We have been trying to understand how to consume REST services with non EGL applications in RBD. To this end we raised a support case (PMR#81172,500,624) to establish how to achieve this and were informed that EGL REST services are only consumable...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 7 Delivered

Creating symbolic maps from BMS maps with LANG=PLI in RDz.

We do have a lot of SDF II created BMS maps with LANG=PLI.Currently we do not have the possibility to create proper symbolicmaps from BMS maps with LANG=PLI in Rational Developer for System Z.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

zUnit: Preprocessor integration support (for example SWT01 for Cobol)

We have a variety of Cobol programs implemented in SWT01. The scanner of zUnit cannot interpret the SWT01 statements and therefore the test case is aborted/failed already during the creation of the use case.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Delivered

Provide ability to manually clean up corrupted AD projects

Parts of a project's configuration may be lost or corrupted for various reasons (accidental repository database deletion, etc.), which can leave the project's name appearing in IBM AD's configuration and particularly in Build Configuration gui, wh...

zOSPT - Option to override the Domain and Tenant ENV variable

This request is to enhance the zOSPT product to accept the ZOSMF_DOMAIN and ZOSMF_TENANT ENV variables as overrides in the zOSPT Image "zosptfile" file and as additional parameter options for the "zospt run" command that can be submitted on the co...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 2 Delivered

CPSM WLR - WLM Health Value of a CICS Region

The ability to influence the WLM Health value for a CICS region to affect CPSM WLM routing decisions.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

z/OS connect Api customizalble JSON request/response

Z/OS connect api generates json request as <service>Operation and the response as <service>OperationResponse. A service name is case of a service toe cics is related to a cics connection. So every same service to a different CICS will ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered