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V6.1 compiler warning if literal ILBOABN0 found

According to the v6.1 migration guide: The ILBOABN0 interface for requesting an ABEND in a COBOL environment is not supported for programs compiled with Enterprise COBOL V5 or V6... To prevent application continuing to use ILBOABN0, compiler to is...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

RSEAPI - support changing RACF passphrases. you currently only support eight (8) character passwords

eight (8) character passwords no longer meet modern security requirements. RACF passphrases are becoming the "new" standard/requirement. We want to use RSEAPI password API to set/modify RACF passphrases - we need the ability to call RSEAPI passwor...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Assembler branches need to be supported

LOAD EP=MyProg or svc 8 st r0,aMyProg 1) l r2,aMyProg CALL (r2),(xxx,yyy,zzz),MF=(E,xWork),VL 2) l r15,aMyProg bassm/balr/basr r14,r15 3) ATTACH EPLOC=(R2),ECB=(R3),PARAM= ((R4)), * MF=(E,(R5)),SF=(E,(R6)) 4) link EP=MyProg LINK SF=(E,LLINK2),MF=(...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Delivered

IMS Catalog add support to JDBC drivers to support sub fields in tooling access for FEDERATED/VIRTUALIZED access

The customer imports COBOL copybooks into IMS Enterprise Suite for Developers for use in SQL queries. 01 root-level 03 can-query1 char(1) 03 cannot-query, 05 cannot-query1 char(1) 05 cannot-query2 char(2) 03 can-query2 pic'999'. As imported, the c...
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Delivered

EYUXC0028W message should be witten to CONSOLE as well as to COLG(EYULOG)

This is a critical message and I don't think we should have to rely on inhouse solutions to move this message to the Console to allow our automation tools to pick up and alert on this message.
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Need an exit point at package define time.

Need a pre and post processing exit at package DEFINE time. Currently, only these package processing exit points are provided:ApproveBackout DisapproveImportInstallMigrateNewcopyReadyUnready.
about 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Update include folder path via API

There are currently no options for adapting the configuration of an AD project via an API. If the include folder path is to be expanded, the new reference must be added to a large number of AD projects via the build client.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

AT-TLS for PDTools Common Component Server

The CommonComponent Server for the ProblemDeterminationToolscurrently use an own TLS-configuration, cipher-specification, TLS-level and so on.On z/OS you can use AT-TLS with the newest security features without changing your program. The administr...
about 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Delivered

Rational Programming Patterns: having an display of indicatifs in a segment.

Hi, Before in PACBASE, in the -DED segment the "indicatif" were displayed. Now in RPP there no longer the -DED screen and the "indicatif" are not displayed in a global detailed view of the segment. It could be problematic when dealing with segment...
about 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

RETRIEVE several components with an single CCID and COMMENT

My Sofware Change Manager is ENDEVOR.I can't "RETRIEVE" several components with an single CCID and COMMENT, entered once and for all. "ADD" several components is also problematic (see RFE 25748).
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

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