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Automatically Determine Host User ID When Connecting to a Remote System via Certificate Authentication

In z/OS Explorer, all Remote System connection types (FTP, SSH, z/OS, etc.) are by default set to the user ID of the workstation that the client is installed on. To change the Default ID for various connections a user can navigate to Windows/Prefe...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Delivered

IMS 15 Continous Delivery optional function

Assumption: I get a new optional function. I can turn this function on and off by command. I can turn this function on by parameter in a proclib member. Now I'm in production and want to prevent anyone from switching off this feature via command. ...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Delivered

64 bit support in COBOL

We need 64 bit addressing capability with our COBOL application program executables.
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

RSEAPI via IBM Developer for z/OS : RACF Keystore

Hi... For the RSEAPI option we are testing as part of IBM Developer for z/OS, we'd like to see that RSEAPI (rseapi.env) can support the RACF KEYSTORE for security. We understand that is not currently an option.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Delivered

Perform until exit

Now that COBOL finally has proper EXIT statements there should be a way to speciify an "infinite" loop, or rather a loop that has no explicit end condition but depends on the use of EXIT PERFORM (or EXIT PROGRAM, STOP RUN, GOBACK) to terminate the...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Delivered

IQIBUTIL add a FINDTEXT option to copy the selected members as can be done via ISPF

Via ISPF FINDTEXT one can copy the selected members to another file for further processing, but using IQIBUTIL in scheduled batch jobs this is not possible.
7 months ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

JSON Parse and Generate in EBCDIC

LE (Language Environment) just implemented APAR PH57152 for COBOL to Parse and Generate JSON in EBCDIC. It would be useful if PLI implemented the same functionality. Developers often have issues in working in multiple code pages. Improper initiali...
about 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Include Client ID in IP Address Rules

Please include the option to include Client ID in IP Address Rules, in addition to IP address, IMS Connect Name & Port. Example resource to define would be: CEX.IPV4.iconname.010.101.026.154.port.L@0VPV Defined with UACC(NONE), then permitted ...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / All components 2 Delivered

API First support z/OS Connect EE

To expose z/OS assets as API's our team uses z/OS Connect as part of a chain that's based on an API Design First approach. We need the possibility to generate all the needed z/OS Connect assets and Cobol copybooks based on that API First. We even ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

increase -Xms512m -Xmx1536m -Xmnx64m value in eclipse.ini

the default values in eclipse.ini for-Xms512m-Xmx1536m-Xmnx64mare to low - every time the customer installs ID/z they need to increase them to be able to use ID/z with their growing size sources
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

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