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Support conversion of ASA print characters in text mode for CopyToHFS

When using the DBB-provided CopyToHFS API to copy compiler listings from MVS to USS, the listings are being corrupted. This is because the function does not properly convert and preserve the ASA print characters in text mode to USS. Customer is re...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

Accept SYSOPTF without PARM=OPTFILE

The Parameter File SYSOPTF is only used, when PARM=OPTFILE is specified. If no PARM is given, the Existence of SYSOPTF should be checked and (only if existing) used.
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Delivered

Cross project analysis for program calls

It should be possible to do a cross project 'Usage in Programs' for programs. That means that it should be possible to search for usage of programs/modules cross the enterprise (all projects) to be able to find calls to subprogram/modules from all...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

Requesting ability to locate fields by name when creating/modifying Templates

I work with users on how to effectively use our mainframe tools. We have a number of large data structures here - the one in a case presented to me has over 700 fields. Setting up a template for a large structure can be cumbersome. In the host pro...
over 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Option to Chain Chase both Prime/Dupe Copies of records in a Duplex environment

New functionality to force Recoup to chain chase both prime/dupe copies of records during Phase 1 and do a comparison of record header content to flag inconsistencies.
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Allow header fields to be moved to response fields

We want to be able to move a correlation id received as an http header into the error schema.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Disallow edit/save of PDSE generated members

Add a site-wide option to not allow users to save changes to a non-zero PDSE generation (-1, -2, etc.). Also be able to restrict the SAVE NOGEN option. We need to secure these options and not allow users to change the options. Ideally these option...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

Support for Jakarta package and JCA 2.x

Microprofile is aligned with JakartaEE (ex J2EE) standard, javax package has been removed in favour of jakarta ones. Cics Transaction Gateway (and also IMS Connect) still continue to use the old JCA 1.7 and javax.* packages, forcing projects that ...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Improve the image extraction experience for Z Virtual Dev and Test

Current process of creating custom images are very complex. Need lot of assistance from a system programmer and storage administrator to discover and identify the volumes needed during image creation . Today there is nothing in the ZVDT solution t...
12 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Delivered

Missing context menu for EXEC SQL CALL

When calling a stored procedure with "exec sql call" no context menu (View, Browse, Edit) to jump to the source (here a stored procedure source) is offered.See: missing context menu call_sp_1.jpg. If I call a "normal" Cobol program in the source, ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 7 Delivered

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