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Enter button hasn't expected effect on a files selection in z/OS project view

The previous fix provided by IBM (in zExplorer 3.1 et 3.2 december 2020) does'nt work in z/OS project view. It only had been fixed in remote systems view. The development team considere TS011260613 as a enhancement request. Can you please make the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

SMU - Add Set START Type function

It must be possible to set the START Type via SMU
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Delivered

Limit the storage a JVM can use in the CICS region

CICS region fails because all the storage below the bar was exhausted. Storage was consumed by the JVM.JVM is running in z/OS adress space - so CICS doesn't recognize this and no SOS will be produces.Related to PMR: 89444,112,84
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

RDz - Expanded COBOL source should support COPY ... REPLACING

In a source where no syntax errors are present, the expanded source does show errors. This is due to the fact that the COPY ... REPLACING statement is not fully executed. Only the original copybook is presented in the source, but the replacing act...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Remove RSR feature without stop IMS

Customer migrated from RSR solution to XRC solution for disaster recovery site. But, if we need to remove XRC function in active site, the 'DELETE.GSG' command need to offline all IMS shared the RECON dataset. Customer SYSPLEX env. is rolling main...
almost 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Delivered

Validate BPXWDYN parms in DBB toolkit

I am receiving the following error when compiling a cobol module Caused by: com.ibm.dbb.build.BuildException: BGZTK0016E An error occurred running BPXWDYN command 'alloc dd(TMP00004) shr'. I know this is caused by a blank property value but I cann...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 5 Delivered

Providing capability within GUI to download/export Audit Log and Dataset Dashboard information to provide to auditors.

M&T Bank team shared that this would be helpful for them in showing the audit log information to auditors without requiring them to give access to EKMF Web directly. They mentioned that this capability was something they'd automatically expect...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Delivered

Possibility to disable (hide) "Manage schedules"

In our shop we use ZWS for the planned stop/start of subsystems. We do not use INGSCHED, nor want colleagues to use it. As they do not know INGSCHED, they do not use it. But with SMU the option is visual as one of the operational tasks and thus th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Delivered

Add an option to the Retrieve Data Set feature to restrict search on additional qualifiers

In remote systems perspective, when we retrieve datasets in MVS files, there no option to restrict the dataset filter criteria to a particular number of qualifiers or nodes. This would be similar to unchecking the " Include Additional Qualifiers" ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Delivered

We want to make a global requireSecure available for API requesters

For zosconnect_apiRequesters element, the apiRequester sub-element has both requireAuth and requireSecure defined. We understand that requireAuth is available at a higher level to cover all zosconnect_apiRequesters. We have a need for requireSecur...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered