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Printing from a IMS Transaction

System: HACPEEActor: User needing new feature Hi, we are installing HACPEE to replace the tn3270 software and use HACPEE for more than 24000 users.Nowaday, is working fine, but we found that HACPEE havent got any communication with LU3 printers th...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Delivered

Add ALL | SOURCE as 1st and STRICT | LOOSE as 2nd new suboptions to RULES(NOLAXINOUT)

We would like to get 2 new suboptions to RULES(NOLAXINOUT): - ALL (default) or SOURCE as 1st suboption with the same meanings like for all other options.- STRICT (default) or LOOSE as 2nd suboption where STRICT means it applies to all INOUT variab...
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Enable automated expansion of a constrained SMS Storage Group

When an SMS storage group fulls up and efforts to free up disk space are not sufficient the next logical step is to add volumes to the Storage Group to increase its capacity. This is a multi step process which involves volume selection, conditioni...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Ignoring SUPPRESS in COPY stmt if TEST Option is in effect

Compiling an SourceCode with TEST Option for Debug Tool. Source contains Procedure Division CopyBooks (containing cobol statements), brought into whithCOPY booknamen SUPPRESS.If Debugging such a Program, you see the variables used in the current s...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Show Expanded Source must support EXEC SQL INCLUDE dclgencopybook ...

The 9.1.1 feature "Show Expanded Source" - is an excellent solution to a perennial request. However, since it does not support EXEC SQL INCLUDE statements - it falls far short - when working with DB2 programs - since the convention in most DB2 sho...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Work Load Manager

Dear Sirs.We, from Serasa in Brasil, are happy users of the WLM z/OS component.In this very moment, we are trying to filter a set of CICS business transactions using the characteristics, as defined at CICS subsystem Classification Rules. By severa...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

SMF SOCIPHER is needed for outbound TCP/IP connections.

We need to review SMF on a regular basis to identify if TCP/IP connections were encrypted. The SOCIPHER field is great for inbound connections. Not only does it give the actual cipher used for the connection, if a cipher number is present (>000...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Ctg request during normal shutdown

As stated in the pmr If a new request reaches from client to CICS TG during the time between start and end of CICS TG shutdown then client will get ERROR_WORK_WAS_REFUSED.We suggest that, in a multiple ctgs environmentrunning on different Lpars an...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Customize Font in the RD/z Monitors View

We want to compare similar variables to check, if there is an error. The monitors view is a proportional font, so the single letters are not one under the other to check every Byte. It would be very helpful to change the font for example to Courie...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

DESC ATTRIBUTES also available in RD/z

In MFI it is possible to show a description of a variable. For example the length. It would be helpful, if this feature ist also available in the Debug Persepctive of the RD/z.
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

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