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Code Coverage support for Assembler Program in 3270

Request to support Code Coverage for Assembler programs in 3270 environment (customer does not use IDz or any client in this specific usage)
about 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

View KOBABOUT - display product subversions

Currently KOBABOUT shows product version only: CFG/FW.. V7.3.0 CICS.... V5.5.0 DB2..... V5.4.0 CICS/TG. V5.5.0 ITM/Z... V1.2.0 Java.... V5.5.0 MQ/CFG.. V7.3.0 MQ...... V7.5.0 z/OS.... V5.5.0 Int/Bus. V7.5.0 We would like to see subversions t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

Binary Literal Support in IMS JDBC V14 Driver

We Need IMS JDBC V14 driver to support BINARY Literal when we try to run SQL using WHERE clause that has LOW values(Binary Fields).
over 7 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Delivered

Windows 10 support for IMS Explorer required

Up to now the IMS Explorer is only supported to Windows 7 and 8. We also need support to Windows 10 to administer the IMS catalog.
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Delivered

Show compilation module time and date stamps in descending sequence on one panel

When teaching the FA class at Highmark, they requested a screen that depicts all the modules accessed by Fault Analyzer during the abend process be depicted on one panel, with the time and date reverse chronological sequence. Other ISV products pr...
about 5 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Pass abending program to CICS Policy system Transaction abend EP adapter

In CICS Policy system rule Transaction abend the abending program should be passed to the EP adapter transaction/program in a DFHEP.DATA.nnnnn container.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

PDS V2 flexibility

This request is to be able to customize the depth of the Persistent data Stores or their number, what the official documentation have called the "default historical interval", as well as the time of switch between one dataset and another
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 4 Delivered

ATTLS for IBM Developer for z/OS, including Enterprise Edition

ATTLS is preferred mechanism for securing connections. IBM Developer for z/OS, including Enterprise Editionshould implement ATTLS support.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered

Optimized LUW_DB2 database query

Currently we create LUW Db2 database manually and then attached that database when we create new project in build client. We do this to create optimized DB2 database by using tweaked create database query. We want to avoid this manual DB2 create s...

Enable Enterprise PL/I programs which are compiled as NORENT (and linked into a NORENT/NONDLL program object/load module) to be able to fetch/call program objects which are linked as RENT/DLL, such as PL/I AMODE(64), JAVA, and other modern APIs.

Use case: Enterprise PL/I has the following requirements/restrictions documented in Chapter 1 of the Programming Guide (GI13-5620-00) regarding the RENT compiler option: “RENT (compiler option) If you link a module (either MAIN or FETCHABLE) conta...
about 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered