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Support Team (Group) field.

This request is to include a field for Product Support Group, that can be updated by the client (end user) via the Web User Interface, with the data retained in the client’s database repository. This field is updateable by clients and can be used ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Delivered

COBOL should allow generation of a JSON document without a "top level parent name"

JSON documents are not required to have a "top level parent name". The Enterprise COBOL JSON PARSE feature has an option "NAME <name> IS OMITTED" that allows for parsing one of these so-called "anonymous" JSON objects. However, there is curr...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Z/OS Connect to have option to allow mainframe clients response data to be returned without JSON conversion

Z/OS Connect to have an option to allow mainframe clients response body data to be returned to the calling program without going through JSON to copy code conversion. Currently there are two issues with how the JSON to copy code conversion is hand...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Historical data for "MSU Statistics" are not available in TOM/e3270

Historical data are not available in TOM/e3270 for METRIC KM5MSUCAP.
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Delivered

Dark teama is not so useful with current color settings

Dark teama is not so useful with current color settings. If choosen then you have to do special adaptions to almost every area and editor to see the data correct or fully. Many users perfer the dark "look".
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Access to source for JZOS Toolkit Record Generation

I would like to request the publication or other availability of the current source for JZOS Toolkit Record Generation. Currently there are a number of issues that I would love to be able to correct or help correct for the benefit of other users. ...
over 8 years ago in Record Generator for Java 7 Delivered

RSC: Don't mark replacement chars (e.g. ':') in literals in Copybooks as error

The real-time syntax checker marks statements in copybooks as error, when they contain replacement-markers like ":" (e.g. ":-SAWX-:") in literal definitions. Indeed, that would be no correct COBOL-coding, but those parts need to include incorrect ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Implement a "run on server" like function in the CICS Explorer SDK for CICS Java development testing

Currently CICS Java testing from Eclipse is not an easy task. This is mostlly because testing requires a real CICS system. This implies connectivity, CICS deployment, CICS refresh and exposes the CICS complexity to Java developers. Also debugging ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 10 Delivered

Make GMTRAN EXIT / DISCONNECT setting available to user transactions

CICS/TS 5.5 extended the System Initialisation parameter GMTRAN to include a second option which coudl have the values EXIT (the default) and DISCONNECT. When set to DISCONNECT the behaviour of the CICS supplied signon transactions CESN and CESL w...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Allow download of non-sensitive key information

A download information in CSV format using the Table view selected columns would simplify management of key inventory tracking. It would also be useful to perform reconciliation between EKMF Web and with the z/OS based CKDS and PKDS datasets (whic...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Delivered

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