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Support long running transactions in zAPM Connect

zAPM Connect needs to support the collection of statistics at Syncpoint intervals instead of only at the end of a unit of work or transactions.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

Update the System Z Data Editor to handle files that have large data record lengths

Enhance the System Z Data Editor to handle files with record lenghts greater than 5,000 bytes. The current editor starts having problems with records of this length. Per the comments in the PMR this problem comes from the limitation of SWT which i...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Ability to set the current timestamp into a request z/OS Connect sends to a backend system

A lot of input messages for transactions contain a timestamp telling the transaction program when an input message has been sent by a distributed application or by a host system of a business partner. For instance application-based transaction exp...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Top Down Workflow

We have a pure top down approach for zos / connect This means we have a yaml or json file with the api definition. Out of this definition zconbt should create structures and members. The developer should just code the empty gaps. zconbt should be ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

MOVE option is not available in RDz

MOVE option is not available
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Allow JSON PARSE to process anonymous table objects

Allow the ability to parse a JSON string that contains an anonymous table object.Currently unless the table object is named parsing fails.Could expand the NAME OMITTED Clause to allow this.
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

EKMF Web - Make Log available listing keys that have been activated but did not get installed

Make a log available listing key(s) that have been activated in EKMF Web but did not get installed in the CKDS. In such case, functionality needs to detect a key created, activated, but did not get installed. This key is then added to this log wit...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Delivered

Newcopy feature for CICS Application Bundles(OSGI) needed

When making changes to a Java Application within an OSGI Bundle you know need to disable, discard and re-install the CICS bundle for the new changes to become active. Since our developer will be making these changes and we don't want to give them ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 12 Delivered

Add Vertical Bar to Toolkit 4.6 LPEX Editor

In TK 4.2 there is a vertical bar showing the continuation column when editing a .asm program. This is controlled from Preferences >> HLAsm Parser >> Margins (must select "Show Margins" and "Enable Margins"). TK 4.6 removes this featur...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Delivered

Ability to add ZIIP when deploying Instances

Ability to add ZIIP Processor during provissionning
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered