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Double Click of Dataset in JCL

Within JCL, if I double-click on a dataset, only the qualifier I happen to click on is highlighted. This is due to the period being a delimiter.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered

EXCI should support CHANNEL and CONTAINER

Currently, EXCI only supports COMMAREA. This limits applications to 32kB of data. CHANNEL /CONTAINER allow to use more than this limit and help to structure the data.
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered

CDP does not support ATTLS

In our company we us ATTLS to encrypt network traffic of the mainframe applications. According to IBM case TS004537625, CDP does not support ATTLS to encrypt the traffic from the data streamer to the data receivers.IBM has always encouraged the us...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

Add user exit to the ZCPYS zFunction command code to allow the user to set global/switches for utilities active

By inserting a USER EXIT prior to ( and following ) activating a ZCPYS FC FLASH or ZPCYS SGC BACKUP, we can check to ensure that there are no other system critical utilities that are running that may be impacted by the resource intensive Flash/SGC...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Command Filtering on menu

- IMPLEMENTS 2 NEW COMMANDS FROM MENU: 'SS' - SHOW SESSION ID 'SD' - SHOW SESSION DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES: - 'SS/SD ACT' WILL DISPLAY ONLY ACTIVE SESSIONS - 'SS/SD ALL' WILL DISPLAY ALL SESSIONS - 'SS CICS*' WILL DISPLAY ALL SESSIONS WITH SESSION ID ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Update the IBM Explorer for z/OS document

During the installation of IBM Explorer for z/OS, while I was setting up encrypted communication, the manual asks to create a separated configuration for testing. One of the steps is to customize a second instance of RSE daemon, then add a job car...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Documentation 1 Delivered

Provide Round Robbin fashion of IPIC connections to multiple backend CICS regions for WAS z/OS servers running CTG local

We need high availability for round robin IPIC connections to multiple backend CICS regions from WebSphere z/OS application servers running CTG in local mode.Similar feature is offered by DFHCXURM exit where EXCI connetions can be routed to multip...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Delivered

Provide a token which will allow correlation of a z/OS Connect request and the work executed in the related z/OS subsystem(s)

In order to build a complete picture of a transaction in a z/OS Connect environment there must be a mechanism which will allow the user to understand the relationship between a z/OS Connect request and the work that's executed on behalf of the req...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Add the hability to parse a json file containing only an array with the JSON PARSE statement

In order to be able to process a REST/json API response, we need to be able to parse a json file containing only an array, beggining with '[' and ending with ']'. Wich is a valid json object. We had opened the support case TS004314426 on this matt...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Visibility to current CPU use by user in RSED address space

From PMR TS003198624 (the new format is not allowed in the PMR field.) With TSO, CICS, and Batch, I have visibility to see detail about TSO logons, CICS transactions, and batch jobs with our ASG-TMON monitors or other monitoring solution. Every no...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 2 Delivered

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