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HATS to strip blanks from end of extracted fields

Give the HATS macro editor the ability to designate specific fields that would have blanks stripped from the end of fields. For example macro variables that extract numeric data would strip off the blanks on left side of the data, so that only the...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Delivered

Provide detailed descriptions of all AD Reports

Provide detailed descriptions of all AD Reports either as part of the documentation or in help files. This should also be part of the training.
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Delivered

FA - Better control of amount of storage collected into dump file

Sometimes during dump investigation we are missing relevant data in FA's dump data collection. We need more control over the amount and kind of data included in a dump data set. This enhanced control should be possible on installation wide basis a...
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

zUnit does not support DLL

Most of the programs are CA Gen generated cobol programs. We build them as DYNAM(DLL) option either statically or dynamically (Also we give a file of IMPORT CODE statement to the binder while linking the calling program to be able to do DLL Call)....
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

Set IMS Fast Path NBA/OBA Default Values

I would like to have IBM provide an IMS level default value for Fast Path NBA/OBA parameter. A couple of years ago we added some new Fast Path DEDB SDEP databases to IMS to be used by the applications for logging. These databases needed to be upda...
almost 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

CICS TS to log original transaction indicator for function shipped CFC2

IIDR for VSAM intends to use transaction ID CFC2 to cause updates made by that replication product to be logged to the replication log. Currently, IIDR for VSAM uses transaction ID CFC1, which suppresses logging. IIDR for VSAM needs to be able to ...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Display attributes of temporary datatypes

By some operations, a temporary datatype is generated:Language Reference "Operational expressions":>The operands of an operation in a PL/I expression are converted, if necessary, to the same data type before the operation is performed. But this...
about 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

COBOL working storage variable for use in the occurs value

One of the issues we see is having to compile programs when we have an abend due to a internal COBOL table overflow. It would be nice to be able to have a working storage variable used in the occurs value so that we could set up a table with those...
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Delivered

Generate Java-/Heap-Dump from a running JVMServer

We need a way to request a JVM-System-Dump, Thread-Dump and/or Heap-Dump from a JVMServer via Console, like a CEMT-Command, CICS-Explorer or CPSM. It's necessary to request via command a Thread-Dump, a Heap-Dump or a Java-Core-Dump separately. Cur...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 12 Delivered

Enable view persistence in OMEGAMON For Storage

The DADS should be a persistent structure that remains intact after a recycle of the TEMS. As views become more complex and require more resources to generate they should also have the ability to be persistent from session to session. In much the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 1 Delivered

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