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Cobol syntactic analyzer to handle multiple ENTRY statements

Any ENTRY statement in a Cobol program is detected by the syntactic analyzer as unreacheable code when previous code contains a GOBACK. However, a program with an entry doesn't necessarily begin from the PROCEDURE DIVISION. Any ENTRY can be used a...
8 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted
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Double check to execute changes to a table when executing an update, delete or insert query in db2 for z/os

It is necessary that when executing a query using the db2 for z/os tool that contains a statement of type INSERT UPDATE or DELETE, before the changes are applied to the table, a screen is added indicating how many records will be affected by the e...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 11 Needs more information

SCRT should be changed to honor AbsoluteGroupCapping / AbsoluteCapping setup on the HMC

We've licenced HW TFP. To prohibit to peak into the TFP corridor, we set up AbsoluteGroupCapping on the HMC for a Capacity Group that includes all LPARs on the CEC to limit the number of CPs used. This was fine for 3 months. Afterwards we recogniz...
14 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Support debugging specific steps inside a PROC

Given the "Debug as" feature, the debug configuration fails to detect inherited steps when the JCL under test uses a PROC. Only the steps in the main JCL are provided for selection. I suggest to analyse or pre-process the JCL by the debug launch c...
29 days ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Submitted

SSL support for the statistics port in Explorer plugin

CICS/TG v10.1 now allows us to use protocol@statssslapi.parameters but the v3.1.0.1 version of the CTG plugin for z/OS Explorer doesn't support this encrypted communication. I think it would be a good idea to release a new version of the plugin th...
28 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Planned for future release

Add option to specify ID for owner of new and existing zCDP policy files

This would help address an audit requirement, as it is against policy for personal IDs to own files in Production environment. Currently, the file owner of the zCDP policy files is the ID of the individual who created the zCDP policy.
15 days ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Submitted

As an IMS systems programmer, I want the ability to make messages sent by IMS back to the client (e.g. DFS3688I) visible to operators and automation on z/OS.

Actually, to have an alerting when a transaction reaches his expire time we have, in the OTMA client descriptor (DFSYDTx), activated the parameter TODUMP with the option YES This solution is no longer efficient because when the issue arises our MP...
22 days ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Ability to save the project analysis in ADDI and continue working on it at any time

After doing some analysis like generating the graph or report. when developer close and reopen the ADDI/IDZ application, all the research was done has disappeared, The solution would be to download the graph and report externally to the local driv...
2 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

ZOAU does not support PDSE datasets on EAV volumes (because they are a format 8/9/3 pair in the VTOC and ZOAU only supports 1 and 8). It would be important to format support for the 8/9/3 VTOC pair. So, request to add this new format support in ZOAU. Thanks

We have PDSE ds allocated in EAV volumes, so when we use member_archive in Wazi Deploy we get the following error in the copy step using ZOAU copy command dcp. Unexpected dscb3 format encountered with ds3keyid of 0x9010180" error" can happen for d...
2 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

multiple servers in a single Administrator instance

currently we have to open many Administrator instances on our work station so we can see all servers simultaneously. a single instance with all servers like the Designer will make it alot easier and user friendly.
3 days ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

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