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Run transaction COWC under a CICS system userid instead of the userid of an application transaction.

The COWC transaction (WLM MAS List Garbage Collector)is being started by some CPSM MAS Agent code under the control of a business transaction. As such, CICS is attempting to attach it with the userid of the business transaction and encounters a se...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Add new MACRO option IGNORE(NOPRINT)

We would like to have a new option IGNORE(NOPRINT) supported by the MACRO preprocessor. So specifying either PPMACRO('... IGNORE(NOPRINT) ...') PP(MACRO) or PP(MACRO('... IGNORE(NOPRINT) ...')) all %NOPRINT directives are ignored and have no effec...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

TLS 1.2 support at HATS level version 8.5.0.4

HATS Needed support for TLS 1.2
over 9 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 3 Delivered

Assembler Macro expansion feature

We are told that IBM is working on a Macro expansion feature and that this will be available in a future AD release.We do not have any visibility of this future release so we are raising a RFE to track. AD works fine with assembler INCLUDES but no...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Delivered

zUnit: No manual input values ??can be entered for FILLER fields using the test case editor

If a field on level 05 has been defined with a FILLER, it is not possible to specify a return value in the Test Case Editor. Unfortunately, this then means that subsequent processes cannot run through successfully because the return value from the...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Delivered

ACBLIB member OLC for DBD change

We expect the ACBLIB member online change (OLC) succeeds for a single DBD re-generated with the BLDPSB=NO option. Currently OLC requires one or more related PSBs in the staging ACBLIB.
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 30 Delivered

Copy local COBOL-Sources to z/OS: encoding-warning

We want to copy local COBOL-Sources (from Project-Explorer) to MVS-Files. The files don't contain any HEX-code or any unusual characters. The source isw copied correctly, but since IDz 14.2.2 there is an Encoding Warning: "The file contains charac...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Enhance AUXTRSW SIT Parm to off ALL option (like AUXTRSW)

The Dump Dataset Switch SIT Parm currently only offers NO and NEXT as options for no switching or a single switch of the datasets. No further switches will occur without a subsequent CEMT/EXEC CICS SET DUMPDS SWITCH (such as via automation or syst...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE using z/OS Unicode service to do the code page conversion

Many customers in Taiwan, we are using z/OS Connect EE product for CP1371 code page conversion solution . However z/OS Connect EE is using JAVA SDK to do the code page conversion and it's not support CP1371 standard.Customer expect zCEE uses z/OS ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Exctended Source Code Margins

Our developers gave us the requirement to be able to have source Code longer than 72 chars (as long as possible) for packages and generated code with rdz, as they are used to have long lines in java they also want them for PL/1. Our margins are cu...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

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