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Support new JCL from z/OS V2R1

JCL Editor breaks on z/OS V2R1 features like EXPORT SYMLIST Please see following JCL: //MKAIQM JOB 7904,KAISER,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),MSGCLASS=K,CLASS=A, // NOTIFY=&SYSUID,REGION=512M // EXPORT SYMLIST=(YEAR,USER,QMDIR,QMFILE,QMDSN) // SET YEAR='2015'...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Provide a user ID variable support for MVS Filter strings similar to JES

Currently, our shop sets up multiple filters prefixed by RACF user ID so they are specific to the datasets they create for their own personal dataset members. The filter string for JES is already support &USERID so if they copied a filter it d...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Add new REPLACE built-in function to replace string once or all

Inspired by the TSO/ISPF editor we miss the implementation of a REPLACE [ALL] to replace a given string "from" with another given string "to" in a given text (variable) – either once (default) or all occurrences. So we would like to get a new buil...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

z/OS Explorer to support Smartcard for client certificates

z/OS Explorer does not support smartcards.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Enhance CTC AT-TLS configuration flexibility

In order to successfully negotiate a secure connection CTC requires that the requested trust certificates be defined within its private keyring. Often the certificates needed by CTC have long since been available in the trust store, but due to thi...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Delivered

Create Project in Batch

Provide a batch function to create a Project for artifacts that are stored in CA/Endevor.

HACP EE Support for Combined Model

We support a large end user community with primarily Combined model pages in Host On-Demand (HOD). Adoption of HACP EE would be the most seamless if we can continue to use our Combined model pages. HACP EE currently does not support Combined model...
about 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Delivered

Support for Jobname and Stepname in DTSP and other ISPF panels

The customers need more Debug Tool selection criteria for DTSP and for other ISPF Panels like TIM. The JobName and the Stepname are needed for delayed debugging
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Delivered

Fault Analyzer Last Screen Secuirty Restriction

We need to be able to restrict access to the 3270 buffer screen also refereed to as last screen. The clear text data witch we do not want all party that have access to the fault analyzer to have access to this screen. Ideally we want to be able to...
about 6 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Delete SCHEME should have a FORCE option to ignore RI Check errors

The deletion of a Migration Scheme suffers RI Check failed because a PSCHEME record references the Scheme. To delete the Scheme, you first must delete the related change packages. However, the customer may want to keep the change packages for reus...
about 8 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered