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Make GMTRAN EXIT / DISCONNECT setting available to user transactions

CICS/TS 5.5 extended the System Initialisation parameter GMTRAN to include a second option which coudl have the values EXIT (the default) and DISCONNECT. When set to DISCONNECT the behaviour of the CICS supplied signon transactions CESN and CESL w...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Delete jobs - confirmation dialog "You are not the owner of ..." should appear only once

Hello, I have the following problem when I want to delete jobs whose owner I am not. Remote Systems View => JESI select a lot of jobs and execute delete. A first confirmation dialog appears "delete selected resources" => see delete_jobs_1.jp...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer 3 Delivered

Z/OS Connect to have option to allow mainframe clients response data to be returned without JSON conversion

Z/OS Connect to have an option to allow mainframe clients response body data to be returned to the calling program without going through JSON to copy code conversion. Currently there are two issues with how the JSON to copy code conversion is hand...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Ability to add ZIIP when deploying Instances

Ability to add ZIIP Processor during provissionning
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

MOVE option is not available in RDz

MOVE option is not available
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Display Return Code for jobs in JES in Remote Systems view

Today we see job name and job id. We need to see the Job return code in JES in RSE view.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 12 Delivered

lightweight VS Code plugin for API editor

rolling out and adoption of eclipse based IDZ IDE has been very difficult due to the size, complexity and performance, so is the z/OS Connect API editor
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

WLMDEF Table - Wildcard Character Usage

We need Explorer WLMDEF table to support wildcard characters.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

Data Conversion issue for array elements in input - z/OS Connect

As per the testing at DNB, CHAR type of data variables gets converted to LOW-VALUES when they are missing from payload but the same CHAR type of variables are converted to ‘SPACES' when they are used as part of array in input and missing from payl...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

COBOL should allow generation of a JSON document without a "top level parent name"

JSON documents are not required to have a "top level parent name". The Enterprise COBOL JSON PARSE feature has an option "NAME <name> IS OMITTED" that allows for parsing one of these so-called "anonymous" JSON objects. However, there is curr...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered