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Monetary Values and DEFAULT-FRACTION-DIGITS

When using the JSON number decimal format the default setting is to 3 decimal places and we need the ability to set the floating point precision and to be able to specify DEFAULT-FRACTION-DIGITS in the build toolkit for outbound APIs.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Need EBCDIC code page conversion check in COBOL and PLI editor

When using local projects to develop COBOL or PLI then files are UTF8 encoded and it is possible to add characters that cannot be mapped later on to an EBCDIC code page. It will be good if a warning could be enabled to flag those characters.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Filteringselect dojo widget

We are missing the dojo component FilteringSelect in RBD. Availability of this widget would provide great improvement when picking restricted values from a combobox, combined with typing to filter the values.At this moment this can only be done th...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Extend the JZOS ZFile class to include "unlocked" versions of read and locate for VSAM files

We've been prototyping and performance testing Java's ability to access VSAM record-oriented or Key Sequenced Data Sets (KSDS) using the ZFile class and now, our own home-grown functions based on the XL C/C++Run-Time Library – in particular, the l...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Delivered

add PROTECT option on START CHANNEL similar to START

Need PROTECT option on START CHANNEL. Currently the only options available are TERMID, USERID and SYSID.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Adding arrays as request parameters

We need ZOS Connect to support query parameters as arrays to keep them as arrays, while converting the swagger to Copybooks rather then converting them to a single string
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Enhance EPLI DISPLAY Command (Route-,Descriptorcodes)

Hello The EPLI DISPLAY Compile option determines how the DISPLAY statement performs I/O. This sets the options (e.g. WTO Routcode, Descriptor Code) for the Display Command I´d like to see more flexibility in the DISPLAY Command to allow override o...
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Compiler options enhancements

Virtually every release of Enterprise PL/I adds new compiler options. It would be useful if the full list could be included in a member (pxoptXXX?) in the ' IELxxx.SIBMZSAM' sample library in a format that can be directly used by a PARM=('+DD:PLIS...
almost 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Allow Multi APIs to use the same Base Path

Our API Developers want to us the same Base path for multiple APIs. when they attempt this - deploy fails with: Description Resource Path Location TypeAn error was received for z/OS Connect EE connection "..... 409 Conflict, BAQR7005E: The base pa...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Clean Code: Flag (more) unreferenced declarations.

Unused Named Constants, some BASED variables and maybe more declarations are not flagged in the Compilerlisting as UNREFERENCED. It is not relevant to the performance or other things at run-time, but to have a clean code (more maintainable), it wo...
12 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

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