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Ergonomic character size

With the availibilty of the large displays like 24" and 27" with their high screen resolution PCOMM no longer provides the required ergonomic minimum character size. Changing the screen resolution does not solve problem, as any screen has only one...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Delivered

Supersessions cics logon

Need the cics script to be able to enter a tranid after it logs the user on.
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

Upgrades to the JSON GENERATE statement - JSON-CODE / root level

Currently, generating JSON using the JSON GENERATE command from a COBOL copy generates a root element, corresponding to the 01 level of the copy. However, this is not in compliance with the operation of most APIs and require a workaround. The JSON...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Sort by discovered type

Add a feature to discover the file type via the content and sort the types into the proper folders for building.

Occurrences of "false errors DFHAP1301".

Case TS008672927 has the details of the issue. A summary follows:There is an automation that cancels tasks that have reached established resource usage limits and, if they are accessing DB2, they suffer AD2R abend, however in some cases the DFHAP1...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Need the support ( "CHAR-VARYING=NO") in API requester design

The client's requirement is CICS1 application invoke outbound API to zCEE then zCEE route the request to another CICS2.The two application in the two CICSs want to use the same REQ/RESP BOOK.The fields in book are all fixed length, so they don't n...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Send DS8K health status info to the TPF console

To help improve the operator’s awareness of conditions within the DS8K DASD control unit on production systems, we would like to take the health information that the DS8K is already collecting and send it to the TPF console.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Enhance SMF 123.1 for API requester to write asserted ID

Currently the header zCEE-ApiRequester-AssertedId is always sent by the stub to z/OS Connect and it's value should be written to SMF 123.1 records for audit purposes.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

RDz cannot access dataset aliases with symbolic names

On our host platform symbolic names are used. We cannot access dataset aliases, which are using symbolic names. e.g.: 1. This symbolic name is set in SYS1.PARMLIB SYSDEF SYMDEF(&CICS#W4='C1#CIC52') 2. This alias is set CISD.CICS.SDFHPL1 -> ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Add Max Capacity Line Cognos reports

Would enable users to understand when CEC Usage is approaching the max MIPS/MSUs available on the processor.
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Delivered