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DB2 Record Support for Types IFCID 412, IFCID 411, IFCID 402

We're using IBM Z Operational Analytics in our environment both for Syslog analysis and for several type of SMF records to be collected and forwarded to other enterprise analytics systems as well. We'd like to enhance those records with DB2 SMF re...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Delivered

Open CICS - TCPIPS automatically after a TCP/IP restart

CICS - TCPIPS goes to closed state if any outage in TCP/IP, but it does not open automatically when the TCP/IP is back. We have to manually open the TCPIPS in CICS using CEMT. Can the CICS-TCPIPS set to open state as automatic when the TCPIP ...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

RDz cumulative Code Coverage Report

RDz has a function that merge the code coverage results to show in a view, but i need to generate report for this merged results. Rdz has this function only for individual results, and we need for the merged result.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Missing of asynchronous mode for calls of parser or for other queries results in far too many freezes and white screens

During the edition of members, too many blockages appears (freeze, white screen..).They are problematics as they prevent the developers from doing their job. They can last several seconds up to several minutes.When they last several minutes, the o...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

Japanese CodePage IBM-1390/1399 support

For IDz V15 and earlier, we can use the Japanese code page IBM-1390/1399 with code conversion for text data when accessing resources on z/OS such as MVS datasets and Unix file systems from IDz client. But for IDz 16, we can not set IBM-1390/1399 f...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Help identify corrupt APIs in seconds

Together with a customer we ran a zCEE v3 PoC. We ran into trouble where we could not connect to the APIs on the zCEE server anymore and not all APIs were loaded, receiving cryptic error messages in the Eclipse GUI and in zCEE messages.log. We cou...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Allow an Explicit SYNCPOINT to trigger end event processing for MQ tracking.

Allow for an explicit syncpoint to signify the end of an event, as opposed to the next successful MQ Get or end of task for zAPM stats gathering. This is required where a single CICS task may process multiple MQ messages, and the context of a ...
12 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

SSL Certificate expiration advanced warning in CICS

When an SSL certificate used in a CICS region expires, it can take time and sometimes a region cycle or other outage to update it. There is currently no warning message in CICS that an SSL certificate is about to expire.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

jsonnonjavaprovider & Remote Tranid

It would be interesting to have the same behaviour when we use NOSOAP webservice with Configfile jsonnonjavaprovider, as the one we have when we use jsonjavaprovider or when we use SOAP webservices. When we use nonjava (jsonnonjavaprovider), CPSM ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

if the copy commend in eclipse so that low values in the middle of the data will not stop the copy.

There is a problem when coping from documents that have non display character - see attached in PMRm for examples
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered