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Enterprise PL/I's LISTVIEW(SOURCE) Compile Option Support for taking code coverage in IDz

・Request for user interface improvement when conducting interactive debug using IBM Developer for z/OS Client In case of LISTVIEW(AFTERALL), debugging is done against source which include the output source text by PL/I preprocessorBecause our cust...
almost 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support of logs from sequential zFS files

CDP should be able to collect user log data from z/OS sequential files. Support is currently available for USS zFS files, but the most common way of writing logs is flat files on z/OS. This function was already available in previous version of the...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Delivered

Implement a "run on server" like function in the CICS Explorer SDK for CICS Java development testing

Currently CICS Java testing from Eclipse is not an easy task. This is mostlly because testing requires a real CICS system. This implies connectivity, CICS deployment, CICS refresh and exposes the CICS complexity to Java developers. Also debugging ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 10 Delivered

z/OS Connect to stop dropping leading zeros from the response of a transaction with a COBOL copybook

z/OS Connect is dropping leading zeros from the response of a transaction with a COBOL copybook When the transaction is tested manually (message placed on the queue in IMS), the following is produced Input Message Format: LKD47 M 03303101010101140...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/os Connect to pass the terminal id or original ip address for securitu

z/OS Connect leaves the TERMID field of the RACROUTE VERIFY parm list blank. It should set it to the originating terminal name or IP Address.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Confirmation pop-up for JES commands (HOLD, RELEASE, CANCEL and PURGE) passed on jobs not owned by the same USERID

Thankfully not often but we have some times users that CANCEL/PURGE jobs in mass in "Active Jobs" filter in JES and disconnect a lot of others users. For the need of "Show JCL" commands, we have left the parameter LIMIT_COMMANDS to "NOLIMIT" and t...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

Job Callgraph

Job callgraph to include PROCS and STEPS

DBB application server must run as high-availability cluster

The application server running DBB must support high availability clusters.To go into production, the server must be able to host the DBB application in a high availability cluster to ensure 100% up time.
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

Provide Execute command for WTO workstations

There's no way to start an operation on a WTO workstation if submit is deactivated. Other operations (CPU-jobs) could be started using the Execute command. So we need a similar solution for WTO operations.
about 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered

LPEX Open Declaration should be in browse mode

The LPEX editor's feature "open declaration" displays a COBOL variable in edit-mode. We want it to be displayed in browse-mode. The variable may be in a copybook.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered