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Warning about generic DTCN profile

We have been experiencing a great number of problems in our CICS regions, caused by DTCN profiles defined incorrectly. These profiles became generic by the wrong use of wildcards or missing data.This has been affecting a lot of developers running ...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Delivered

PD Tools Lookup view - lookupText method could it return other stuff than null

When using LookupView.lookupText() I would like to able to see if something is actually found, since if not a message should be shown. Currently the method only returns null? Instead of returning a string, maybe it could return the number of hits ...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Empty DataGrid shows 10 empty records. We only want the header to show and no records.

When a DataGrid has no rows the DataGrid shows 10 empty rows. We would like the DataGrid to show no rows, but only the header. Additional information:- We use RBD 9.0.1- When te code in the below provided 'Use Case' is entered in a ruihandler the ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Change the max for ZHTTP MQUEUE to 9,999 and the schema maximums for queue length, sessions to start and sessions to 999

Change the maximum on the ZHTTP MOD MQUEUE (ZHTTP MOD MQUEUE-9999) command to 9999 and modify the xsd files to allow a maximum value of 999 instead of 99 on the following tags: sessionsToStartTypemaxSessionsTypemaxQueueLenType .xsd file... <sim...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Generic userid support with non LE IMS transaction in Debug Tool

Today, when a given user wants to debug a non LE IMS transaction, he should send EQASET to determine the debug console. EQASET has to be sent on the same terminal as the transaction itself. It does not fit with the way the transactions are sent to...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

RDz: Bi-directional (BiDi) text is not taken into account in job output.

In RDz, use of Bi-Directional (BiDi) set of characters is not possible in the Job output. (Messages are returned from left to right while written right to left).
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

ctg support for OSGI bundles

We want to be able to use ctg from 3rd party osgi container. 1. Using JCA APIs to configure ctg connection pools2. Allow CICS resources to participate in XA transactions.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Modify DSP to match FCH member processing

Have two FM Batch jobs, one using FCH and the other using DSP. There are multiple input PDS libraries concatenated together resulting in multiple occurances of the same member names. FCH will find/process all occurances of the same member while DS...
almost 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Debug Tool DTCN TCPIP matching for EZA Sockets in CICS

We need to be able to use DTCN to match on IP address for programs running under tasks initiated from EZA Sockets. Currently we can only use IP matching for tasks associated with a TCPIP Service.
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

RFE for CICS CM Package List by Status

In our CSD migration process, we have setup automation to approve, ready, and migrate packages as the package moves from environment to environment. A challenge has been in the use of the batch APIs to extract information on packages that are read...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered