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Double Click of Dataset in JCL

Within JCL, if I double-click on a dataset, only the qualifier I happen to click on is highlighted. This is due to the period being a delimiter.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered

Provide a token which will allow correlation of a z/OS Connect request and the work executed in the related z/OS subsystem(s)

In order to build a complete picture of a transaction in a z/OS Connect environment there must be a mechanism which will allow the user to understand the relationship between a z/OS Connect request and the work that's executed on behalf of the req...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

EXCI should support CHANNEL and CONTAINER

Currently, EXCI only supports COMMAREA. This limits applications to 32kB of data. CHANNEL /CONTAINER allow to use more than this limit and help to structure the data.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered

Original Client Certificate Userid in CICS Monitoring Record

When a HTTP request, running in CICS Liberty, is authenticated by a client certificate the CICS monitoring record does not contain the correct userid. That does not affect runtime operation of the user task, but the task will be associated with th...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Fault Analyser : Retrieve Cobol Special Register values in Dump

It would be very useful to have the Cobol Register value included in the Fault Analyzer Dump.In a Cobol Dump, when value contained in Cobol Special Register are involved in the cause of the abend, there's currently no way to find them in the Fault...
over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Allow keystore with safkeyringhw and JCECCARACFKS

When trying to configure the WUI CMCI JVM in our recently upgraded CTS 6.1 sandpit WUI, a problem was identified to do with the configuration of the keystore which uses crypto hardware. Each time the WUI restarted it would change safkeyringhw to s...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS Preprocessor LIB option

The CICS preprocessor creates required COBOL Compiler Options including the LIB command. The LIB option is no longer supported with COBOL 5 and 6. Please create a CICS('cobol5') option which can be included in COBOL Compiler Option directives to m...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

ADDI-Support for current version of COBOL

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the COBOL scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

Provide an Outline view for JES output, similar to the Outline view for a COBOL program.

Similar to the Outline view of a COBOL program, add an Outline view of a JES output (entire job) that provides the ability to jump to the ‘next' or ‘previous' JES file or any other JES file within that job. This would be similar to the Prev/Next c...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

Ability to Hide/Show External Reference field on Package Menu panel

Add a configurable setting/feature to Show/Hide External Reference field on Change Package Menu panel. This allows for any customization done on External Reference field to be switched to a recently added new field (Previous Exit Text) in APAR PH5...
10 months ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

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