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Analyzing COBOL-Copybooks used via COPY ? REPLACING

When analyzing the usage of a variable, which is declared in an include with a placeholder and is used in the program with the help of Copy .. Replacing, it is important to recognize the name of the include.Currently, when using the variable, the ...

EYU9XLOP is called regardless of DYNAMIC(YES) specification

I would like transactions to invoke EYU9XLOP only if DYNAMIC(YES) is specified on a transaction when a region specifies either DSRTPGM=EYU9XLOP and/or DTRPGM=EYU9XLOP Right now, regardless of the DYNAMIC specification on the transaction, EYU9XLOP ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 12 Delivered

System Automation Zowe API be made available to perform an automation refresh

System Automation to provide a Zowe API to perform an automation refresh of the environment and return back to the caller whether or not this has worked.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Delivered

System Policy for MQ connection status

System policy rule to detect when an MQ connection is not enabled.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

There isn't any journal automatic recovery when ENF48 is received from logger.

After Volume disabling CICS Logs going in disable state, works as designed. The question is from the LOGGER point of view everything worked normal, now we only need to clarify, when LOGGER sends the ENF48 signal to CICS that the status of the logs...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Context/Scope Fastpath

Currently the CICSplex Explorer and CICSplex Repositories tabs are used to set the Scope/Context. We would like to have a Fastpath Search available for these 2 tabs
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

SYSTEM Policy action to influence WLMHEALTH

System Policy action to influence WLMHEALTH
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Compare submitted JES JCL

Allow an option to select two jobs, right click the selection and select Compare Submitted JCL. Currently we have to select Show JCL for each job, save the JCL, navigate to the saved location, select the JCL's, select Compare With > Each Other
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 Delivered

Support for Cobol Decimal fields 9(x).9(y)

We require support for the mapping of real decimal fields in Cobol -- in the form of PIC 9(x).9(y)..
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Display Return Code for jobs in JES in Remote Systems view

Today we see job name and job id. We need to see the Job return code in JES in RSE view.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 12 Delivered