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Warning Message when using VLR(Standard) and FILE STATUS=4 COBOL V5

COBOL Version 5:If no File Description exists for the smallest and the largest Record, the file status is 04, as difference to COBOL Version 4.So for cleaning the programs, i like to set the VLR(standard) option.But then i want to get a warning (o...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

Need more documentation on how to create the input directory for the wazideploy-package command

wazideploy-package command can package a local directory but the documentation does say how to create this directory and what content it should have. The documentation indicates to use the groovy sample PackageBuildOutputs.groovy to create a tar f...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Delivered

Documentation doesn't mention soft link for /usr/bin/env which seems to be needed for scripts to work properly

Having this mentioned in documentation may save a big number of hours of debugging everyone's first build process with DBB and groove. The user responsible for running dbb builds has Bash set as their default shell (configured via OMVS PROGRAM set...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Categorization of Resource Detail information

Categorization of Resource Detail information (as in the WUI)
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Delivered

Implement search dialog for -DR editor as it is already for -CP

If it could be possible to implement, for some pertinent editors (I think -DR of course but also -CE for Segment and Screen), Please implement a functionality of a search in the same way with the search implemented on -CP tab. Thanks.
about 3 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

Coding own FUNCTIONS

Extend the scope of available Functions to be extended by own coding.Own functions could be locally defined (contained program) or in it's own source and be available for external users (as a normal sub program).
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Provide ZFILE function to display largest file system files and/or directories that can be sorted on zTPF

Provide a way to display file system usage that can be sorted. Currently ZFILE du does not support an option to sort output by file/directory size. The output can be very large and is difficult to manually scan for the largest files. We need funct...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Don't stop at entry to COBOL nested programs

For debugging of CICS transactions, using DTCN with LoadMod or CU specified, there should be an option so that the debugger does not automatically stop upon entry in to COBOL nested programs.This causes debugging of programs with nested programs t...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

CICS TCPIPService not closing in an orderly manner at shutdown.

The TCPIPService is not closed or deregistered during normal shutdown of a CICS listening region in a manner that allows for the workload to be shifted to another listening region in a seamless manner. The current process at shutdown will accept c...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

MQ Provider data in Interceptor

Customers require OMEGAMON to provide API data for MQ service provider. The interceptor does not currently get driven for the MQ provider service.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

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