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PL/I PICUTRE Data Type Support Required in z/OS Connect EE

We are generating SAR files for PL/I Copybooks using BAQLS2JS provided by z/OS Connect EE v2.0. The Copybook contains PIC data types. We were told by IBM that the tool does not support the PIC data type. Therefore we would require the PIC data typ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Column indicator line in Cobol editor

A preference is available in LPEX. Customer would like the same in COBOL editor. It is:LPEX Editor -> z Systems LPEX Editor -> COBOL parser -> Controls -> Column indicator line -> check box: Enable a vertical line that indicates the...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

User defined messages in Fault Analyzer IDz/Eclipse plug-in

There is a way to use user defined message explanations, abend code explanations and program descriptions in FAN under ISPF environment. Our shop been using IDz for some time already, and more and more people moving into this tooling now. Therefor...
over 1 year ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Remove restriction on typed structures and data-directed I/O statement

Extract from the Language Reference manual chapter 12: 'Typed structures cannot be used in data-directed input/output statements.' While data-directed I/O is possible on structures, the compiler is currently not accepting it on typed structures. A...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Have TOM leverage the z/OS parallel sysplex for high availability services

Resilient to infrastructure failure since an instance of TOM would run on all LPARs participating in highly available services
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

zUnit to integrate an option for remote preprocessor

Our system relies heavily on a custom code for Cobol. It would be very helpful and ideal if we can just set the preprocessor option and use the original source code
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

z/OS connect Api customizalble JSON request/response

Z/OS connect api generates json request as <service>Operation and the response as <service>OperationResponse. A service name is case of a service toe cics is related to a cics connection. So every same service to a different CICS will ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

New fields on IZPCA tbls

Customer, AMEX (American Express) is in an urgent need that the following new fields on SMF DB2 fields, be added on IZDS/IZPCA DB2 tables: RDS_SORT |QXSTSRT |Number of times RDS Sort was performedRDS_SORTL |QXSTSRTL |Number of times RDS Sort used ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Delivered

TWS/SA Asynchronous command completion

The TWS/SA interface allows for asynchronous commands by specifying the a 'Completion Checking Routine' in the Completion Info field. This is great, but completion of the TWS operation can only be done by the 'Completion Checking Routine' using it...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Delivered

/fb command shall produce a log file the simmilar as /m1 does

New CLI command introduced in v5.1.0.5 full build in background /fb produces the log file in the same way as using the foreground build client. Would be good that this /fb command would produce the log file in the same manner as /m1 command does n...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Delivered

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