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Data Set Commander: Need FINDTEXT and MEMFIND in JCL

I have a PDSEv2 with 10,000 members plus concatenations of data sets with thousands of other members and want to scan everything without tying up my ISPF online session, plus and extract scanned results to a sequential dataset. FINDTEXT and MEMFIN...
over 7 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Limitation of the default Field size of all fields

Currently the field lengths are defaulted to 255 and even when we are using the defaultCharacterMaxLength property to default the field to some other value, copybooks generated aren't picking them.I think if we can have this field length derived f...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

FA - Add BEAR display for CICS Transaction Dump Analysis

CICS transaction abend analysis do not show the BEAR (Breaking Event Address Register). The BEAR is available in many of the CICS (i.e. DFHTACB, KERRD) and z/OS (SDWA, ESPIE, RTM) diagnostic control blocks. I am told that the BEAR is displayed for...
about 6 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

HTTP Header data for apiRequesters (outbound from CICS)

Our current z/OS Connect SMF records now contain HTTP Header data for apiProviders (inbound to CICS) and apiRequesters (outbound from CICS) but Omegamon only displays the data for apiProviders The Omegamon manual only lists logging apiProviders as...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Delivered

Configuration Manager should allow symbolics in the EMBED dataset RTE parameter

When adding the RTE_X_OVERRIDE_EMBEDS_LIB parameter in the RTEDEF RTE configuration, it is not possible to include symbolics in the dataset name. Symbolics are allowed when using the RTE_X_SECURITY_EXIT_LIB parameter! Please also allow the use of ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Delivered

Configuration Manager needs to support the KD2_OMPE_DSHL parameter for remote configurations

If using the CFM GENERATE action with the KFJ_LOCAL_PLIB_HILEV parameter added in the KCIVARS DD. The GENERATE fails when the RTE configuration has defined the KD2_OMPE_DSHLQ and KD2_OMPE_VSAM_DSHLQ parameters. The KFJ00213E failure messages repor...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Delivered

compile option to disable repeat of 1st line of source in all output heading

When comparing compiler listings, in order to pinpoint differences (between compiler versions or source version), as much non-essential information is causing "differences" to be flagged.Further, compiler listings are rarely printed, but only sear...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

LINECOUNT(0) compile option to disable all non-section pagebreaks

Current LC implementation expects a fixed linecount number. In rare cases listing sections exceede that line count.And for simplicity, LC(0) is easier to "remember" than an fixed number, which might change between compiler version
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Support for IMS Large Data Service

When dealing with an IMS Service message with a length greater than 32k, it seems that there is no need to use a Large Data Service and an IMS service can always be used as it accounts for this. However, a flag that gives the option of z/OS Connec...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

[RPP] Proxy java generator

For GUI Applications, we use Pacbench eBusiness Générateur Java v2.5v13. Pacbench eBusiness Générateur Java v2.5v13 works fine with WINDOWS Server 2012, but we have planned an upgrade to WINDOWS Server 2019. As this tool is essential for developer...
over 1 year ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered