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Using the FIND from Find/Replace in GUI yeilds no results

When invoking the Formatted Editor from inside Fault Analyzer on a Load library member, and using the Find function of Find/Replace, no / incorrect results are displayed
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RFE - Option ALL not available for ROW COUNT

Option ALL not available for ROW COUNT
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Limiting the number of trace files in Performance Analyzer

System: z/TPF Toolkit Performance Analyzer Actor: Program developers using the Toolkit PA Description: It's possible for Performance Analyzer (PA) to run a whole heck of a lot of times if the program(s) being analyzed for a given registration entr...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Allow HLASM to run on an x86 Linux server

Currently the HLASM build only works on a Linux system running on a zSeries mainframe, this restriction means we must purchase an IFL and mainframe storage to run just one Linux server, the TPF Toolkit guest.This IFL runs on the same hardware as o...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Toolkit Custom Dataset Handler

We have a 'custom dataset handler' plugin for our TPF Toolkit at Amadeus. It reads the program and version in the object file and therefore locates the correct source file in the Folder that is given. It handles a format like below (for program ST...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Textual display of MQ header data tags in FIle Manager WMQ option

FM can show the WMQ header fields with the sample templates.The message data can also be further formatted or not as you like, with either language based or dynamic templates, which would allow for mapping unknown length message data. However FM d...
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

File Manager /ISPF

Manual and awesome issue in File Manager when working with more that one structure imposed to a dataset. An automatic option is requested. It seems as if all necessary data is ad hand to implement a solution.
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Address File Mgr 'OPT 3; VSAM only' Display limitation.

From the Responder text in PI10803: "When using File Manager 3.4 Catalog Services, migrated datasets should only be shown when Option 1 (Any) is selected. File Manager cannot distinguish between migrated VSAM and non-VSAM datasets." Currently , th...
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Data Binding for XML and JSON

The standard industry approach to handling JSON and XML payloads is to use a data binding solution (has objects that serialize and deserialize XML or JSON streams directly). Data Bindling objects are compiled from message specifications e.g. XSD f...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

allow profiles to be setup with “RECOVERY ON” so UNDO commands can be performed in Edit mode.

Provide the ability to allow profiles to be setup with “RECOVERY ON” so UNDO commands can be performed in Edit mode. This capability has been in ISPF Edit. It's a huge omission not to allow edits to be undone within File Manager; in essence, forci...
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration