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zUnit to be able to handle pointers in the linkage variables

Our cobol programs are utilizing pointer variables in the linkages. Using zUnit Test Case Input wizard, the copybooks referenced by the pointers are not seen resulting to not being able to provide input data to a test scenario. PMR 46883,122,000 i...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

Tiered authority for Admin functions

SS will need to support different tiers of Admins: System, Master, Operator, User with panels to support thisWhat functions does each tier need to perform? Master Administrator -can assign administrative authority to other users. This authority is...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Monitoring enhancement for "Outboard Copy Inhibit" check

Enhance GDPS scripts to include steps to perform a check for "Outboard Copy Inhibit" condition for the volumes on the DS8000 as a health check prior to taking any copy services actions.
over 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

One-Click deployment of API & SAR

We request One-Click deployment for both APIs & SARS from the API Toolkit to z/OS Connect. Currently, we need to use FTP to transfer our APIs to the Mainframe. With developers reiteratively making changes to their APIs, this one-click enhancem...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

IMS Explorer does not accept more than an 8 character password and does accept passphrases.

IMS Explorer does not accept more than an 8 character password and does accept passphrases. Our corporate requirement for security passwords is a 10 character passphrase. We are unable to use the product without the 10 character passphrase.RACF an...
about 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 33 Delivered

Lift restriction impose by the number of non system LX

Currently the maximum number of linkage index (LX) allowed for CICS is 2048. In our shop we have over 700+ CICS regions running in the same LPAR. Each CICS consumes 2-4 LX. This leaves no room for other batch job which has the need to use LX and c...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Provide an XPI to inquire on Feature Toggles

Raised at the CICS BP Conference and 1-1 with Colin Penfold. Please provide a way to inquiring on feature toggle settings
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Finer grain client request API Security

The feature request that we'd like IBM to explore is to provide the capability for zOS to be able use claims in an ADFS token to determine whether or not a given request should be given access to an API or Service. At the current moment, Liberty i...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Add MQMONITOR name to CKTI messages

Messages issued by the CICS MQ tasks, CKTI specifically, to contain the MQMonitor name when the task is associated with an MQMonitor
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Create internal property group containing compiler options used to produce

Visual debugging not working for PL/I in IDz https://l2l3-cmn-rtc.ratl.swg.usma.ibm.com:9443/ccm/web/projects/Rational%20Escalation#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=96097*******************what we need is to get compiler option and...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

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