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SSRANGE with Warning Option

With RFE 78190 SSRANGE was enhanced for ZeroLength-Moves (SubOption ZLEN).The Problem of an ABEND is: The Test is immediately stopped.Would it be an option for giving a Message at Runtime (Not the default option),so after a whole test run we could...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

ISPF-SDSF XDC equivalent function on IDZ

Currently we do not any option where we can capture the JES details into a text file , in specific use case we are not able to load JES file with 4m lines into IDZ.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 3 Delivered

Authentication and identity propagation for API Rest DB2

When using ZCEE, you already have a connection with a USERID identified by RACF. When you go to the Rest DB2 API, the only two ways to identify yourself to DB2 are Basic Authentication or passtickets. In these two cases, the user is hard coded.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Access to source for JZOS Toolkit Record Generation

I would like to request the publication or other availability of the current source for JZOS Toolkit Record Generation. Currently there are a number of issues that I would love to be able to correct or help correct for the benefit of other users. ...
about 8 years ago in Record Generator for Java 7 Delivered

Support bi-directional linking between the editor and the JCL Outline view

RDz v9.0.1 only supports linking from the JCL Outline view to the editor. It does not support linking from the editor to the JCL Outline view. If the current line (cursor) changes in the editor the JCL Outline view highlighting does not change to ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Support http-method PATCH

For some communication, especially REST-API's, the http-method PATCH is required. The CICS Web Interface should support it.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Having the same call scheduling DSLIST on IDz (filters) than ISPF (3.4) to access PDS without catalog's right in RACF profile

After discussing with the RDz/IDz host development team, it appears that ISPF and IDz don't order DSLIST in the same way. For example with restricted user RACF profile, READ access to certain datasets but no access to the catalog, you can read the...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Temporary storage cleanup in CF

During simultaneous Cics's startup, new pick have emerged due to delete of TS queue.Temporary storage cleanup in CF .So customer is asking these following requests: 1-Is it possible to somehow assign the cleaning to a single region or alternately ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Set open mode by filter configuration

We ask our users to not open a dataset in edit mode if not needed. Preferences allow to change the default open mode to browse or view, which often is unhandy in some situations. The same option on a per filter basis would be much more comfortable...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

add DFDL the structure to structure support to openAPI

currently only one schema can be defined for request/response in openAPI swagger. This does not allow you to use the DFDL structure to structure schemas. DFDL structure-to-structure schemas have proven to be very good at reducing the amount of mai...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered