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Direct access to members and datasets using Menu Manager

Menu Manager should have the ability to directly open members and datasets in editor or give a result set in Remote Console with a list of clickable links to members and datasets from which the user can open then in editor. For example the respons...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

OMON Resource Limiting for Transaction CPU Time for less than 1 Second

Looking to see if a change can be made to allow Omegamon to do CICS Transaction Limiting (KILL LIMIT) for under 1 Second CPU Time. Seems that one second is the lowest value that can be set.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Improved channel usage with RUN TRANSID

We would like improved channel/storage management when using the RUN TRANSID function, to reduce the complexity of solutions using RUN TRANSID, and remove the chance of storage leaks in long running tasks.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Allow RDO definitions to refer to User Globals - in a dfhconfig/UserGlobal directory

Add a feature to allow User Globals Variables to be defined. At the moment there seems to be a small list of CICS-provided variables (&USERID, &APPLID, &SYSID, &JNAME, etc) for use with a subset(?) of RDO definitions. My suggestion...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

SWB allocated above the 2gig bar

With the increased usage of MQ and SWB usage , more SWB are needed but space is limited to below the 2gig Bar. This request is to expand SWB's to above the 2gog bar.
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

zUnit error MemoryShortageException: CRRZT0113E -nosec

Customer runs out of storage for large data layouts. Support recommends a RFE to resolve. "...attempting to open the Edit Test Data Layout for a COBOL program with lots of copybooks, and you receive this Memory Shortage Exception:" com.ibm.etools....
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Request for a new function to record and store all input and output data at run time whether the test result is pass or fail

In Japan IDz users have not adopted zUnit. The reason is that they use COBOL Unit Test Tool before zUnit launch. COBOL Unit Test Tool is GBS IP asset and implemented as an eclipse plugin. However, they cannot use it with next IDz, because it uses ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

IGYOS4090 I The "LIB" option specification is no longer required when compiling with COBOL Version 5 under CICS.

Using the CICS translator with Enterprise COBOL for z/OS® Version 5, message "IGYOS4090-I The "LIB" option specification is no longer required. COBOL library processing is always in effect. " is no received. This occurs with the CBLCARD option und...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Microsoft Active Directory Integration for Application Discovery Configuration Server Admin

Currently, when setting up users and groups in Application Discovery Configuration Server Admin page, the administrators are going through a time consuming process of setting up users and groups manually. The users need to be added via an import f...

Enterprise COBOL V6R4 - IGZPROUT - Add "SERVICE" information in report

Hi, IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4 allows you to produce a report of all subroutines called by dynamic call. We would like the information introduced by the SERVICE compilation option to be included in the IGZPROUT report. This would meet one of our...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered