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RDz CARMA Quick Edit to support VB dataset

RDz CARMA Quick Edit to support element added from VB dataset. Please refer to the PMR for detail.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 4 Delivered

Provide dump override for ECB heap control table

Customer reported a problem involving the corruption of the ECB heap control table (EHCT). This corruption resulted in a CTL-4 dump in ccstor on a free(). To help identify the source of the corruption, the customer wanted to examine the entire EHC...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

program debug /nodebug option

The customer is asking for the debugger to be more granular down to the macro level rather than at the program level if the program can be debugged by the debugger or not.. So in this example the customer has it's own application lock similar to I...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

File Manager version 12 FM/DB2 Copy Utility issue with Default values

Issue with the Copy Utility in FMDB2 when rows are copied from one table to another, the Copy Utility does not use the default value for fields defined as DATE. What the utility uses instead is the current date.
about 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Support XDC in RDz JES output

It is a very commonly use features in SDSF panel.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

RFE for eclipse EFS OSGI bundle exporter

A CICS bundle is created with one OSGI bundle, the deployment to the ZFSdirectory regularly fails with an Eclipse message: java.net.socketTimeoutException: read timed out. My colleague uncompiled the IBM java class which is at the origin of thepro...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

Requesting that FLATCOPY not shutdown due to individual flat file error

We believe that, in order for the product to be operationally functional, the handling of individual errors within flat files must be changed to not result in the termination of the FLATCOPY process. Today, when FLATCOPY terminates due to a proble...
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add new FA command to display dump data in ASCII

Fault Analyzer currently does not provide a command which allows switching dump data display between EBCDIC and ASCII. Currently, we need to set up a formatting exit. This is way too much trouble simply to have the data displayed in a different fo...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Exit point program RANA tests field-properties first and field-values second.

It's not possible to test just the values of 2 different fields/attributes; therefor this request to have the possibility to test just the value of any field with the value of any other field. Example testing with NEFDB2E_501 Q DB2EDEF_TRANSID NEF...
about 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Support symbolic substitution in ACTION definition message templates

We want to implement CPSM RTA and generate mails via system automation if a (CPU) limit of a transaction has been reached.<br />Message EYUPN0007W is read by automation and creates a mail to application responsibles.Unfortunately it is not p...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered