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OPRMSG output to separate files

Customer Société Générale is using zD&T and OPRMSG to send commands to their z/OS system instances.However, output of each OPRMSG command is sent into a log file with all other output from MVS. Société Générale would like to have a separate fi...
about 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Delivered

Allow headless build of APIs

Currently it is only possible to build an API (the .aar) within the elcipse IDE and z/OS Connect API Toolkit. We need the capability to build the .aar file from a CI/CD Pipeline.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Chnage IMS DISPLAY command from TYPe 1 to TYPE 2

z/OS Debugger get MPP list with TYPE 1 display command but the command was prohibited to make large display for the list. Please change the display command from TYPE 1 to TYPE 2.
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhancement to the INITCHECK option to find all possible “used without being initialized” fields.

Description:INITCHECK currently only reports definite “used without being initialized” fields. Requesting an enhancement to the INITCHECK option to additionally report all possible “used without being initialized” fields i.e. something like a new ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

User exit to support Query Reply

When the VSS Option Query passthru is active, I would like the opportunity to inspect and alter the Reply sent to the target application
almost 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow customization/addition of columns in Observation List

I would like to see other columns from the Session profile in the observation list. Duration, #samples, CPU active samples, system ID. Both in the ISPF and Eclipse based GUI.
about 10 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

ZUnit: Separation of display outputs in the program and Runner:Replay outputs

Currently, the display outputs in the program are output together with the Runner:Replay outputs in a DD dataset.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Delivered

IDz headless Code Coverage daemon support CCS call to retrieve result xml

The current Code Coverage Service RESTful API didn't retrieve the xml file generated under the CCSONARQUBE sub-folder, which contains the actual code coverage line number information.
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add new IMBED directives to include a member with PROCESS directive(s)

Please add the new %IMBED directive to include a member with one or more PROCESS directive(s) with the following syntax - similar to INCLUDE but supporting one member only: %IMBED member; or %IMBED ddname(member); In addition, please:- Add the *IM...
almost 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Warn if creating Data Sets, that can't be used with ISPF Editor

Please add a warning when allocating a data set in remote systems view with a) LRECL>32760 for fixedb) LRECL > 32756 for variablec) BLKSIZE <> 0 or no exact multiple of LRECL for F / LRECL+4 for V
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 3 Delivered