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Set report of all errors found when reloading a new GEOPARM (in a single validation sequence)

In large GEOPARMs, the verification can take several minutes. When the GDPS performs the reload/validation of the GEOPARM, it stops if it finds syntactic errors. They must be corrected and perform the syntactic validations again, then the consiste...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 3 Delivered

Enable SAF_Keyring Support for TCPOPTS

The HTTPOPTS statement of TWSz controller allows you to specify a SAF-Keyring for using SSL-Connection. But this only enables secure communication via SAF-Keyrings for Controller-Controller connection.We also want to secure the TCP/IP communicatio...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Edit Popup in Debug perspective

In the popup window doing mouse hover on a variable i need to edit, copy , paste the value
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

File Manager option to Import File in Plug-in RDz

in the file manager plugin for RDz i have the option export to desktop and i need option to import from desktop
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Passphrase support for HWSSMPL1 (connect API)

HWSSMPL1 does not support passphrase and we need passphrase support for HWSSMPL1. One of our major application uses connect API which use HWSSMPL1 and we are looking at strengthening password using passphrase.
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 4 Delivered

Support for LOGRY and LOGRZ Couple datasets in the INGPLEX CDS command

With z/OS 2.4, the support for LOGRY and LOGRZ policies was made available for GDPS configuration. Currently, with System Automation 4.2 and 4.3, the INGPLEX CDS command does not support these new CDS policies. When in the INGKX300 (INGPLEX CDS), ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Delivered

Allow zCEE API requester facility when more than one 2xx response defined in the swagger document

The swagger document has the following description operationId: scoreSearchesUsingPOST consumes: - application/json produces: - application/json parameters: - in: body name: scoreApiFilter description: scoreApiFilter required: true schema: $ref: '...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Null array gives IGZ0339W instead of IGZ0326I

We are parsing JSON containing: "myList":["item1","item2","last"], with structure defined: 05 MYLIST OCCURS 5 TIMES PIC X(10). This works as expected. However, sometimes the list is empty so the service returns: "myList":null, This thro...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Delivered

Provide a DB2 z/OS DDL without implicite created Objects

During installation of DBB Version 2.0.0 we found that the provieded DB2 z/OS DDL did not work for us.We are not allowed to us DDL which implicite creates Objects.So we need a DDL which has create Tablespace and create uniqe Index statments.The re...
about 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Delivered

JZOS Maven jars should throw exception for disabled functionality

IBM has made JZOS jars available on Maven Central for development and compilation. The functionality has been disabled in the Maven Central jars. Some or all disabled functions currently return invalid values e.g. null. If you inadvertently use th...
7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 4 Delivered