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OTMA with Conversation

Hello IBM, we use MQ-Bridge with Conversion-Transactions.But the conversion is not closed from remote, so the connection are hangig. GROUP/MEMBER XCF-STATUS USER-STATUS SECURITY TIB INPT DRUEXIT T/O TPCNT ACEEAGE MAXTP AMQP ACTIVE ACCEPT TRAFFIC C...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Support a shared SSL API to return values in extended SSL certificate area (i.e. V3)

The IRS has mandated that IRS host systems validate specific values in the SSL certificate to ensure the person and/or connecting device has authorization. The values we need are in the extended portion of the SSL certificate. Other servers (Linux...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Access to the text of the macrostucture entity

Currently, to access the text of a macrostructure it is necessary to use the super reference. Would it be possible to have a link to the text directly in the macrostructure entity?
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

copy/paste information in -CE label of dataaggregate

Currently, it is not possible to copy / paste the segment description in -CE label of a dataaggregate to put it in a text editor (ultraedit, word..Etc). This practice was very regular before.
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

zUnit compile link stubbed subprogs in batches

Our programs have a call to several subprograms and there are cases we need to stub them all (>5). Currently you will compile link each subprogram one by one and it takes time.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

Change CICS/IA to show command EXEC CICS GETMAIN with LENGTH

We would like to detect EXEC CICS GETMAIN with LENGTH.We use CICS IA tool to see it.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

DSC LLA Monitor should refresh LLA directory entries of members that are updated via FTP

We are using FTP to move changed modules from the dev lpar to the prod lpar. We'd like IQIMONTR to react to the module changes in linklisted datasets and issue an LLA REFRESH command. FTP creates a SMF119 record.
over 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

WSDL client interface on nillable fields can't be compared to null

When I create a client interface from a web service wsdl files for a record which contains nillable fields, the record field can not be compared to null. It always defaults to the current date. The client interface record has the following paramet...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Delivered

z/OS Connect JSON Parser needs to handle large numbers and not round numeric values

When processing a large number (One that is too large to be represented by a signed 64-bit binary value) the IBM JSON parser raises an error - because it regards the value as 'not numeric'. Also, if a number has decimal positions and has more than...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

New attribute for declaring a structure of SQL indicator variables (based on a structure of SQL host variables)

Given a variable or a structure of variables to be used as host variable in SQL statements (for instance a DCLGEN-generated structure), a new attribute should help declaring an indicator variable or a structure of indicator variables in an easy an...
almost 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered