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Need for Simple ISPF like Search (3.14) for PDS

When trying the remote search option on a large PDS (13,000 members), our user experience is one where the RDz client never returns a response to the user. This is a ciritical feature for the work that our developers do in order to do their job wi...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Provide a CICS API to generate an encrypted RACF Passticket based upon a Kerberos token.

Using the CICS API (RFE 38916) to verify a Kerberos token in CICS it is also necessary to generate a RACF Passticket for a certain application using the Userid within the Kerberos token. Providing a CICS API would massively ease the adoption of th...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

vsam.js find() to place the cursor at the the first record that has a greater key satisfies the search

The FIND method in vsam.js can be used to position the initial cursor, but it has to be an exact match. Otherwise, null will be returned and the cursor is not positioned which has a greater key satisfies the search. It is suggested to enhance the ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 3 Delivered

Support hexadecimal data access of VSAM file in MVS

Node.js server in USS is required to access to legacy VSAM files in MVS. USS is in ASCII while MVS in EBCDIC. Codepage conversion may affect the hexadecimal data access. The VSAM files contain hexadecimal data (non-displayable) in key or content. ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 0 Delivered

Support RACF Keyring access for key and certificate extraction for https connection

Key and certificate are required for https connection in node.js server. Key and certificate are required to be extracted from RACF Keyring.
over 5 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 3 Delivered

Kerberos enablement to support Active Directory SSO

To adopt SSO via Kerberos in Node.js running in z/OS. This can provide better user experience to avoid unnecessary action.
over 5 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 3 Delivered

Start marking of changed lines in Cobol PDP Editor

With LPEX editor, we can ?start marking of changed lines?it is widely used in COBOL program maintenanceCould you please implement this function in PDP Cobol Editor ?We need it to modify program with RPP.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Delivered

DCLGEN and outputlibrary

When doing a DCLGEN in Data Studio using IDz you will reach a point where the output dataset needs to be specified. On that panel the field is locked and you have to use the "Browse" button to select a library. It is way too slow than just typing ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Be able to authenticate against RACF

We want to be able to use node.js to authenticate to RACF based on userID & password credentials.
over 5 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 2 Delivered

Enhancement to check report to flag specific programs

In check report, programs from z/OS system and subsystems (MQ, CICS, DB2, IMS...) are reported to be missing, but it's not possible to load them in AD. We will need to know in the check report that these programs are not missing but as part of the...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

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