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RSE Disconnect warning

Provide a warning message x minutes before disconnecting from Remote System, allow option to keep connection open.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 6 Delivered

Enhancement to allow Control-flow to work for when there is no space between subscript

We have a lot of code in Production where there is no space after the comma in statements using subscripts. The code is in copybooks as well as programs, Cobol compiled gives a warning but successfully creates the load module. However Program Cont...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Value-based item-supression for JSON GENERATE

We need an additional functionality for JSON GENERATE to suppress some items in the output document at runtime based on values of their source fields. This feature exists for XML GENERATE but not for JSON GENERATE.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Support for Extended Address Volume (EAV) on z/OS

Currently RDz does not support Extended Address Volume (EAV) on z/OS. This is a major inhibitor to the adoption of RDz in z/OS host application development, since host data sets on EAV cannot be accessed via RDz.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

default BLKSIZE = 27998 used in copy command in ID/z

Copying via ISPF asks for these options: Allocation Options: 1. Allocate using the attributes of: T03119A.somedata 2. Specify allocation attributes Use existing SMS attributes for option 1 So it‘s at users hands… When I read your documentat...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered

Enhanced processing of invalid characters in HEXDECODE

The newly introduced HEXDECODE builtin, according to its description, will raise the error condition if the buffer contains any character other than '0123456789ABCDEFabcdef', leaving it to the support staff or programmer to find the offending char...
almost 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Request zCEE to ignore undefined new/changed fields

Request zOS Connect to ignore the fields in the API response that are not part of .ara definition for API requestore scenario, so clients no need to rebuild .era files to accommodate the new/changed fields. Current zOS Connect error message when n...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Include application name and user ID doing MQPUTs and MQGETs in Omegamon

This RFE is to enable Omegamon to display application name and or user ID of the process which is performing the GET/PUT or both. We had enabled application stats for Omegamon but it does not show the applications name rather it either shows CICS ...
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Delivered

Sonar integration

Hello, Euro Information is involved in DevOps process and as a consequence needs to facilitate quality analysis directly when developers are coding their Cobol programs. Sonar is one of the leaders in this domain and we want to make it possible fo...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Adding more information to DFHSM0102 Storage Violation messages

When a storage violation occurs under CICS we get DFHSM0102 messages. For example:15.42.11 STC38008 *DFHSM0102 CICSXXXX A STORAGE VIOLATION (CODE X'0F0C') HAS BEEN DETECTED BY MODULE DFHSMAR.15.42.11 STC38008 +DFHME0116 CICSXXXX 643 643 (Module:DF...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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