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USS filters in Export Remote JAR dialog

When developing Java batch applications our teams want to execute and test them as fast as possible. Therefore the "Export Remote Jar" functionality is used to reduce the number of manual steps. The dialog when selecting the remote target director...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Delivered

Amend DELAY API to be aware if it is cancelled.

When a CICS DELAY is issued with a request ID, the issuing application has no idea whether it waited for the full duration specified on the DELAY or if it was woken up early due to another task CANCELing the request ID. Would it be possible for CI...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS should never loop endlessly when gathering statistics and writing them out to SMF

Sometimes, CICS statistics collection goes awry and loops endlessly. When this happens, CICS writes statistics to SMF for the same group of resources over and over in a never-ending loop. This causes CICS to become unusable and to have to be cance...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

SlackBytes on Sync-Structures should be flagged

Given Structure:05 MyStructure.10 FirstItem PIC X(3).10 SecondItem S9(8) BINARY SYNC.After FirstItem, the Compiler will insert a non-accessable Byte, called SlackByte, for Alignment.I need a Compiler Message (Informational), every time when a Slac...
about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Module names missing in FA eclipse GUI

In the old FA ISPF user interface “6. Storage Areas” the storage areas are listed as “Event nn Program xxxxxxx Data” and you can very easy investigate storage areas for a specific module. In the FA eclipse GUI “Event details” are they listed as “E...
over 5 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

enable use of the IBM API Connect for outbound apis.

When defining outbound api configurations in zOS Connect as apiRequestors it is sometimes necessary to configure custom http-headers to be applied to the outbound api call. For example the "x-ibm-client-id" when targeting an api on IBM API Connect...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Add zUnit Functionality to COBOL Modules not in a PDS

Currently, you are only able to generate a test case using zUnit if the COBOL Program is located in a PDS file. Here at my organization, we often work with programs not retrieved from Endevor and directly to a PDS, instead leaving them in what we ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Delivered

Require override for API requester in server.xml under zosconnect_apiRequesters

We have a requirement to set requireAuth=false for all API requester scenario. Today, you can do this by creating an apiRequester configuration element every time you deploy a new API requester function. This is not ideal since we don't want to up...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Provide a redistributable JAR file for the IBMJZOS API in Java 11

In Java 7 & 8 the IBMJZOS API toolkit was shipped in the JAR file ibmjzos.jar and licensed for redistribution. The same function is required in Java 11. This enables other s/w components to easily embedd this file and also enables the usage of...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add Back the CICS Explorer Release to CICS Explorer Download Filenames in IBM GitHub

Currently the CICS Explorer Release is no longer part of the Download File name in IBM GitHub. Only the Aqua Release is represented. Understanding that we don't want to extend the file path names we would like to see both the Aqua and CICS Explore...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

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