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View Problems (vue Erreurs) option Advanced Show All pour afficher tous les avertissements/erreurs du Référentiel

La vue Problems avec l’option « Show all » affiche les avertissements/erreurs détectées dans le Référentiel sans que l’administrateur ait besoin d’ouvrir un Cobol PDP quelconque, il s’agit des types :“Desynchronized_Generated_File_Marker”, “PDP Er...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

API First should deliver copybook only without project structure

When running the zC EE Gradle build with the option to only deliver a copybook, the entire project structure gets delivered as well. The creation and editing of a service should include developer relevant aspects only. This project structure has n...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Real-time display of QR TCB usage and CPU/DISP ratio

Knowledge Center states the following: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.5.0/tuning/dfht3c0020.html "To calculate the approximate time since CICS statistics were last reset, add the values of "Accum time in MVS™ wait" and "Ac...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Add support for Java 11 to allow integration with newer Sonar products in IDz

SonarLint and SonarQube have already made the jump to Java 11. Windows 11 is being shipped with Java 11. Adding support for Java 11 in IDz would prevent compatibility restrictions with the newer versions of htis integrated product.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 4 Delivered

Allow credentials needed for full authentication in IMS to be passed from zCEE

Our InfoSec team is requiring that any connection into IMS be enabled with RACF = 'Y' (meaning both userid and password is needed to authenticate). Unfortunately, zCEE does not currently pass any kind of password information along to IMS, only a u...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

Policy Rule to use Header value simply IF header is present

Today we can create rules to take action based on Conditions with EQUAL, AND, and OR operations. for example:<conditions> <header name="cicsTran" value="KE18,KE20"/> </conditions> <actions> <set property="cicsTransId" va...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Select which teps are used with custom dashboards

It is currently possible to define up to 6 teps in SMU. Unfortunately, you cannot select components for every server. The custom dashboards that you create automatically only retrieve the data where components have been selected. "Default TEPS" It...
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Delivered

Purge CDBT txn

System: CDBT txnActor: Purge CDBT Ability to "PURGE" CDBT txn. Situation arises when IMS is failing and several CICS regions simultaneously issue CDBC DIS IMM to "failing" IMS.IMS appears to only handle a set number DISCONNECTS from CICS. This res...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add support for debugging with LangX in Cobol 6

A Cobol program compiled with the Cobol 4 compiler using the option NOTEST can be debugged using the LangX genedated from the listings. It would be very useful to enable this feature for Cobol 6 programs too.
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add connection reference property to CICS service provider

At JPM all CICS services defined with the toolkit have connection reference “catalog”, I suppose because of the IBM example application. I cannot change that, all services are created with that dummy connection reference. If I had to change it dyn...
11 months ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered