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Need a way to set DYNAMNBR on user build JCL card

We need a way to automatically set parameter DYNAMNBR on the JCL jobcard generated by IDz for User build.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Delivered

Allow export of z/OS Remote Search results which include the # of lines before & after current as specified in preferences

Currently (using RDz v9.1.1), the ability to specify the number of lines before and after current is enabled in preferences. When set, this works by hovering the mouse over the result in the search window and you will see the before/after lines as...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Full qualified dataset names with definition by wildcard

Hi,in our development environment there are many liberty profile instances within cics (up to 50) and development has the possibility to delopy their applications in any liberty instance by their own via ucd. These applications write their own log...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

Dynamically adding file definition to CDP by cooperation with UCD

Hi,in our development environment there are many liberty profile instances within cics (up to 50) and development has the possibility to delopy their applications in any liberty instance by their own via ucd. These applications write their own log...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

Provide monitoring data for current number of tasks in TRANCLASS at task attach

CICS provides the performance class monitoring CURTASKS field (id 434) in the DFHTASK group. This field records the number of tasks inside the system at the time of task attach, which is very helpful when understanding retrospectively how rapidly ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

change of Internet Links and product names

we are using IBM Explorer for z/OS, mostly CICS Explorer, debug tool plugin and MQ Explorer plugin. The most time consuming activity is the search for a changed product name and the changed Internet link.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 1 Delivered

Provide a redistributable JAR file for the IBMJZOS API in Java 11

In Java 7 & 8 the IBMJZOS API toolkit was shipped in the JAR file ibmjzos.jar and licensed for redistribution. The same function is required in Java 11. This enables other s/w components to easily embedd this file and also enables the usage of...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

Work without deactivate Omegamon RLIM

By default, DebugTool disable Omegamon RLIM for task debugging under it. I think is a good idea convert it to optional (i.e. with a EQAOPTS parameter)
almost 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Cobol Formatter should Align "TO" Clauses

Cobol Developers spend lot of time and love by manuelly align all TO Statements within their sections. In our Opinion this Alginment improve the code quality enormously because variable names have often the same name and differs only by the prefix...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

RDz - new OFFSET feature request

Problem statement:Whenever the user/ developer needs to know the position and length of a particular variable in the record layout or temporary variable of a working storage section, they need to create a new copybook and open it in File Manager, ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

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