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Prevent CICS third stage initialization from completing until all JVMs either become enabled or produce an error

We have startup transactions that are loaded after the "Control is Given" message and these transactions require specific JVMs to be enabled or they will fail. We need the JVMs to be initialized and enabled prior to the Third Stage Initialization ...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Add zUnit support for Entry Statements

Currently, when trying to generate a zUnit test case on modules with ENTRY statements, the linkage isn't populated and the wizard is not usable. I have attached screenshots of the module we're trying to generate a test case for and what zUnit look...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Delivered

please create a dsect for SMF123-1

Please create an Assembler DSECT for SMF 123 records
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Resource limiting on transaction runtime time (after first dispatch)

We have transactions queued in tclass and they are in tclass for longer than the time allowed for the task to complete in the resource monitoring. This result in the tasks being purged as soon as they get a change to start / get first dispatched. ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / All components 1 Delivered

Change DECIMAL-POINT to comma in File Manager for DB2

Display of numeric fields in File Manager for DB2 shows decimal point exclusively as ".". It is not possible to change to "," (comma), as you can do in SPUFI. It seems to be a good enhancement, as customers can use both characters to separate deci...
about 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Accessing TCPIP-Network monitoring data from e3270UI

A complete view of the mainframe TCPIP-Network can only be realized by using two different agents: OMEGAMON XE FOR MAINFRAME NETWORKS NETVIEW ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT AGENT The Netview Enterprise Management Agent provides for example data for the int...
about 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Add new XREF sub-option or another new compiler option to get enhanced File Reference Information about the used source and include members

While working on the migration from Serena ChangeMan to BMC ISPW we came across that no tool other than the PL/I Compiler can correctly detect, which version of the source and include members have be used during the compilation. This data is impor...
about 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

ServiceNow integration for IZWS

Today we have our Mainframe and DWC installed next to it. We would like to create some automatic incidents on ServiceNow by using ‘’events’’ on DWC through API on the Mainframe.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

IDz DBCS does not recognize empty SOSI or SISO inside

In unicode conversion from host, SO (x0E) and SI (x0F) characters are stripped off. They are inserted back when saving back to host.DBCS character conversion does not work as expected with certain sequential combinations of SO and SI. In some case...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Improve positionning in -DR of a DBB

With -XB of a segment, when typing PF10 of the line, we arrivedirectly on the good line of the -DR of BlocBase.In RPP, this function does not exist so, in some cases (large Database block description), it is very difficult to get positioned on the...
about 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

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