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Have zCEE identify itself using User-Agent

Currently when using z/OS Connect REST service provider to communicate with a middleware product like DB2 the user cannot configure which headers are passed or their values. This RFE is requesting new functionality that would pass from z/OS Connec...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

key product after using CICS trial

we would need a key to activate the product CICS after using CICS trail when the tests are completed
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Ability to Hide/Show External Reference field on Package Menu panel

Add a configurable setting/feature to Show/Hide External Reference field on Change Package Menu panel. This allows for any customization done on External Reference field to be switched to a recently added new field (Previous Exit Text) in APAR PH5...
about 1 year ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

zCEE API Toolkit support for VARCHAR in Cobol

API Toolkit does not provide an efficient support for VARCHAR in Cobol.Example Cobol copybook:03 CUSTNAME. 49 CUSTNAME-X PIC X(080). 49 CUSTNAME-L PIC S9(04) COMP. Resulting JSON:"CUSTNAME" : { "type": "object", "properties": { "CUSTNAME-X": { "ma...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Display all executing JES jobs at top of filter

Today the executing jobs are at the bottom of filter display. We need a way to filter them to the top of the stack? a way of setting the display order for the different types of jobs (input jobs/running jobs/output jobs)
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 8 Delivered

Put transaction and system dump tables in RDO (SHARE requirement SSCICS94012)

Settings for transaction and system dump codes should be able to be defined dynamically with RDO.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Enable RACF Keyring changes to take affect without bouncing zOS Connect

If we add a certificate to RACF keyring that serves as the zCEE Truststore to enable TLS handshake with an endpoint, we have to bounce the server for it to be recognized. Truststores should be capable of dynamic refresh or dynamically reload via a...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Add new switch for cdadump/dwarfdump to specify locale

The dwarf data appears to be saved in UTF-8 format. When using the cdadump/dwarfdump program to display/print the variables and source sections, we see that various special characters are either printed incorrectly or shown as a hex escape sequenc...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

EQQAUDIT should include records if operation is manually hold

Manually HOLD option or NOP'ed are not logged properly or displayed correctly in the EQQAUDIT report IF change has been done by modify of the operation using 5.3 (M.3). Same issue if operation is updated using 5.2 and modify of the application is ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

ZOWE RSE CLI should implement the local encoding option

Zowe CLI does have an option for local encoding, while RSE CLI isn't yet adopting it. I think it will be usefull to avoid the pre-encoding before uploading Cobol sources from a host to the Mainframe.
7 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

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