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Update the System Z Data Editor to handle files that have large data record lengths

Enhance the System Z Data Editor to handle files with record lenghts greater than 5,000 bytes. The current editor starts having problems with records of this length. Per the comments in the PMR this problem comes from the limitation of SWT which i...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Dark teama is not so useful with current color settings

Dark teama is not so useful with current color settings. If choosen then you have to do special adaptions to almost every area and editor to see the data correct or fully. Many users perfer the dark "look".
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Omegamon for z/OS Address Space CPU Utilization to include all GCP CPU only

We are migrating from the ASG TMON Product Suite to the Omegamon Performance Suite and are busy creating the TEP workspaces and situations similar to what we had automated in the TMON Product sets. We added a Workspace called Address Space Overvie...
almost 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Delivered

IZPCA: add SMF field QWSAIIPT on table KPM_DB2_SYSTEM_T

We use table KPM_DB2_SYSTEM_T to monitor DB2 System metrics (SMF100). This metric is useful to monitor DB2 I/O interrupt CPU usage. The field QWSAIIPT is also missing in the record definition (DRLRS100). We need a new column in the KPM_DB2_SYSTEM_...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Delivered

Change default cursor location .

When I press the escape key (which is usually an ATTN key) while inside a session, then the cursor will default to the first session on the main menu. In a previous version ( 1.4.7) the cursor was always positioned on the current session when re...
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

RSC: Don't mark replacement chars (e.g. ':') in literals in Copybooks as error

The real-time syntax checker marks statements in copybooks as error, when they contain replacement-markers like ":" (e.g. ":-SAWX-:") in literal definitions. Indeed, that would be no correct COBOL-coding, but those parts need to include incorrect ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Newcopy feature for CICS Application Bundles(OSGI) needed

When making changes to a Java Application within an OSGI Bundle you know need to disable, discard and re-install the CICS bundle for the new changes to become active. Since our developer will be making these changes and we don't want to give them ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 12 Delivered

Option to only display the active sessions within Supersession

We have recently migrated from TPX to Supersession. When a user logs onto TPX they get a complete list of sessions, exactly as in Supersession. However it is possible for a user to override the display of sessions by entering a temporary override...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

User-Defined Functions in Mainframe COBOL

The mainframe COBOL compilers support the use of intrinsic functions through the use of the FUNCTION keyword, e.g., in the MOVE statement. Examples: MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE TO CUR-DATETIME.MOVE FUNCTION LOWER-CASE(EMAIL-ADDRESS) TO EMAIL-ADDRES...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Replace /usr/lpp/cicsts in the CICS Web Assistant script with a variable similar to PATHPREF or USSDIR

Remove hard coded zFS address from the DFHLS2WS (and associated) scripts
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

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