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For AD 505+, need to be able to pre-alloc repository DB2 databases instead of having BUILD CLIENT dynamically create them

Customer (JOHN DEERE..makes tractors and other farming equipment) wants to create project databases in advance via their own DB2 DDL, instead of Application Discovery generating DDL via build client as a new project is generated.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Delivered

DFHWS2LS requires an exclusive lock on the partitioned data set to which it writes.

Currently DFHWS2LS requires an exclusive lock to the PDS to which it writes the language structure.If the lock is not available DFHWS2LS will fail with.DFHPI9523E An unexpected error occurred whilst processing file file.Customer has lots of web se...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

The CICS Web services Assistants only support applications with EBCDIC interfaces.

CICS Web services internationalizationMore and more customers are converting their CICS (and other) applications to UTF-16. This is fully supported by DB2 and HLL's like COBOL and PLI. Unfortunately it is not supported for CICS Webservices (Assist...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Expand All option in the CARMA view

To be more productive , it would be great to be able to expand (or reduce) all the folders of the view .
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Delivered

COMMAREA's transported as CHANNELS

This stems from discussions at the CAF on the back of AXGE abends and dfhtransaction - and in effect a need to protect CICS legacy applications from any new or extended use of the dfhtransaction channel. Allow for COMMAREA's which are greater than...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

COBOL 5 - TEST(NODWARF) for non-IBM debug tool users

This requirement is similar to existing requirement 75048 "Cobol V5 - Evolution for TEST option-TEST(EJPD,NODWARF) for non IBM debuging tools" IBM provides in Enterprise COBOL version 5 a sub-option for the TEST compiler option - NOTEST(NODWARF). ...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

CICS/IA suppression of duplicate REQID commands

CICS/IA allows for the suppression of commands by resource name for ENQUEUE and TSQueues, but we find a similar problem with REQID. We would like the REQID command also be suppressed if the REQID uses a constantly changing key.
over 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

1. How to resolved IMS region(s) “blocked” by Rdz integrated debugger sessions. (How to work with IMS dedicated debug regi

When a debug session is started with the Integrated Debugger, and it involves programs running under IMS, the region where that program is running will be blocked as long as the debug session is open.If you only have a certain amount of IMS region...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

COBOL Editor Refractoring GoBack

When refractoring and you chose New Section and "End of Program" a second new section is created with the name of the new section preceeded with FT-.Within that second new section is a GOBACK statement. The refractoring should check whether the se...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

RDz

The current RDz build/design expects there to be a 1-2-1 relationship between RDz instance & Endevor Instance. Given that some mainframe LPARS at GM can have 35 Endevor instances, the approach of running multiple RDz instances per LPAR is not ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 7 Delivered

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