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Nullable records in service requests

When a parent record contains a child record which is nullable, you have to explicitly set the child record to non-null (using the 'new' keyword). If you forget this and send this parent record to a service, the value in the child record do not ma...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Delivered

Create SHA-512 APIs

Currently IBM has provided SHA-1 and SHA-256 APIs for use under zTPF. For example, we have tpf_SHA256_digest() function calls. CPACF also supports SHA-512, hence we would like access to this hashing algorithm. Our Security group has asked the leve...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

VFAFILL=NO support for more macros

The new parameter VFAFILL of the macro FINDC (apar PJ46019) is a very good thing for the RECOUP. We would like to use it on some of our processes but it only exists for the FINDC macro. Could you provide us with the VFAFILL parameter on the other ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

New 32 byte TIMESTAMP element format

DB2 allows a timestamp value of up to 12 digits following the decimal point for higher precision in timestamps. RPP currently has a data element format TS which generates as a PIC X(26) based on a 6-digit fractional second portion of the DB2 times...
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Support section stack frames in IDz v14.1 and z/OS debugger 14.1

The current a limitation in standard mode debug engine can represent a paragraph as a stack frame in visual debugging, but it cannot represent a section as a stack frame. We need IDz v14.1 and z/OS debugger to support section stack frames in visua...
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

change DBMDT so no localhost definition are needed

the current LOCATHOST setup needed for DBM / DBMDT can cause problems with other domains
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Delivered

map/rename DB2RestfulServices respose in zCEE

When connecting a DB2Rest service we need the ability to rename/remap/filter the response structure.Today the "ResultSet Output" item is always there - ugly.There is a mapping feature in the tool, but all that happens is that the swagger is change...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

CICS-PA Exception summary report

The CICS Exception Reports (Summary) provides good information summarizing the Exception class data based on Transaction ID. Unfortunately this report doesn't include the APPLID. 1. Please include or make provision to include APPLID field in the s...
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Show difference between member generations

DSC shows the list of member generations introduced with z/OS 2.1. Additionally to such a list it is needed that DSC shows the difference between generated members.
about 10 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Exclude Program from Side File Search

We need a possibility to define a general list of excluded programs from Side File Search. Perhaps it can be realized in IDICNF00 as suboption to FAISPFopts (like HISTCOL).
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

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