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Save contents of CICS resource view in a folder

The ability to SAVE the select contents of a resource view (Operations or Definition) to a selected folder. We should be able to select the name and the folder. Also, create a new folder if required.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Performance-critical Statements (with extra generated Code by Compiler) should be flagged

When compiling a program with OPTIMIZE, the compiler should flag performance-critical statements and expressions.The Compiler-Program "knows" when to insert extra code for number converting,so it could give a hint to the Programmer, such as an "In...
almost 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Delivered

There isn't any journal automatic recovery when ENF48 is received from logger.

After Volume disabling CICS Logs going in disable state, works as designed. The question is from the LOGGER point of view everything worked normal, now we only need to clarify, when LOGGER sends the ENF48 signal to CICS that the status of the logs...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

TPIPE Checkpoint Statistics

We would like to have a statistics checkpoint record with TPIPE information, like the number of TPIPEs at the time of the checkpoint (global and per tmember), high water mark, etc.
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Prevent CMAS termination with EYUXC0023S and EYUXC0024S if request for dataspace storage is from end-user query

When a user in the WUI or CICS Explorer issues a query, CPSM creates a result set within the CPSM Dataspaces for the CMAS where the user connected. If CPSM needs to expand a dataspace and is unable to do so due to storage constraints, the CMAS wil...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Allow download of non-sensitive key information

A download information in CSV format using the Table view selected columns would simplify management of key inventory tracking. It would also be useful to perform reconciliation between EKMF Web and with the z/OS based CKDS and PKDS datasets (whic...
about 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Delivered

Add customizable syntax highlighting for additional types in IDz

We like to have an option to add own customized syntax highlighting schemes for specific languages without any. More current versions of Eclipse (starting with Photon 4.8) include e.g. the Generic Text Editor which has such option on-board so we d...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Delivered

Analyzing COBOL-Copybooks used via COPY ? REPLACING

When analyzing the usage of a variable, which is declared in an include with a placeholder and is used in the program with the help of Copy .. Replacing, it is important to recognize the name of the include.Currently, when using the variable, the ...

XML System Services in z/OS 2.1 XML fragement parsing for COBOL 4.2

There have been changes made to the XML System Services in z/OS 2.1 for XML fragment parsing which is exploited by COBOL v5.1. We would like these changes to the compiler leveraging the XML System Services changes for COBOL 4.2 to take advantage o...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

System Automation Zowe API be made available to perform an automation refresh

System Automation to provide a Zowe API to perform an automation refresh of the environment and return back to the caller whether or not this has worked.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Delivered