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New fields added to message payloads break Web Services and JSON APIs

When CICS is acting as a consumer (requester) of Web Services or APIs, CICS should not fail the request with a parsing error if the external provider adds a new field to their response payload. Industry best practices indicate that adding new attr...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Exclude option for files, SQL tables in the programs call graph view.

In the AD version v6.0.1 both forward and backward call graph shows programs, files, SQL tables in the analyze client graphical view. From users perspective the expected behavior is to show only the programs alone. Of course this could have been a...

Requesting Toolkit 4.6 Search Capabilities (similar to 4.2)

This is a request for supporting SEARCH capabilities in Toolkit 4.6 in a similar fashion to RSE in Toolkit 4.2.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

Support for PROCESS and RETURNING statements for COBOL in AD Build client compiler

Need support for PROCESS and RETURNING statements for COBOL in AD Build client compiler.When compiling some programs found in JKEBank demo, they aren't builded. Application Discovery 5.0.1 running on a Windows Server does not acceptPROCESS stateme...

JVM Server Kategory - Dynamic Deployment

At the moment I am trying several things in JAVA with Cics 5.1 and applications and there is one thing more and more I don't like.<br /><br />For every bundle I have to define a JVM server where it runs on. I think this is not realy fl...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

FA: link to Storage Area for Data fields at time of error

In the "Main Report" tab you can have "Data field values at time of abend:" The listed Data items may be truncated.Instead of showing here the complete value of the Data item we prefere to change the Data Item Name to a link. The Target of the Lin...
over 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

make new functionally ( related to PLI pre processor) in V16 optional

property group selection dialog always opens if the program to be debugged is not hanging in the RSE view below an MVS file filter and thus no property group assignment has been made. The debugger is started via a procedure in the job or a transac...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Overflow exception in operations with floating-point data not raised

Due to the fact that, while using the compiler option ARCH(12), an overflow exception was not trapped at run-time, resulting in a wrong output, where the most significant digits are lost, we would like to have an enhancement to cope with this prob...
almost 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Controlling CICS detailed internal tracing from a line mode transaction such as CEMT

The facility to control the SPCTR STNTR SYSTR USERTR trace settings through a line mode command such as CEMT S INTTRACE (or similar).Optionally also the trace settings for each domain setting.
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 10 Delivered

IQIBUTIL add support for if/then/else/endif conditional statements

allows for better control of the sysin commands based on previous command results
almost 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered