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Support for Cobol Copybooks with Redefine Clause

Currently most of the core banking applications on mainframe have Cobol copybooks with redefine clause. Due to product limitation this will limit exposing API's for some of the key services.
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Add Control-M scheduler support in IBM Application Discovery

Currently, IBM Application Discovery can only support schedulers for IWS/TWS, A-Auto & CA-7 but not Control-M. Many customers who are interested in ADDI are using Control-M. It would be great if the product can support Control-M so that custom...
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

Accept SYSOPTF without PARM=OPTFILE

The Parameter File SYSOPTF is only used, when PARM=OPTFILE is specified. If no PARM is given, the Existence of SYSOPTF should be checked and (only if existing) used.
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Delivered

ZOS Connect - No error description is returned for length validation on server for IMS APIs

If the Length of input value entered in alphanumeric field exceeds than that of length of field defined at backend/API. Z/OS Connect tool doesn't send any message onto UI, though message is logged onto Server message.Log file. This is happening fo...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Add MQMONITOR name to CKTI messages

Messages issued by the CICS MQ tasks, CKTI specifically, to contain the MQMonitor name when the task is associated with an MQMonitor
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

RTMC - SSL Connections for Kafka

Need the ability to easily configure tpfrtmc and the RTMC analyzer to connect to kafka with SSL. Example of relevant settings below. May not be a complete list. security.protocol=ssl.keystore.location=ssl.keystore.password=ssl.key.password= ssl.tr...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Make CP22 APAR PH44215 (new back chain validation) configurable by new CRUISE Table parameter.

CP22 APAR PH44215 included new back chain validation where the backward chain in the prime should now be the last in chain. Full backward chain validation is also in play with PH44215.We ran into some old/legacy databases that were created before ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

[RPP] Rule "éviter les expressions NEXT SENTENCE"

Related to archived case TS002533615 in RPP 962 : Il ne faut pas appliquer cette règle sur ce qui est généré par une ligne N de type IT DW DU... car c'est le générateur qui produit la clause NEXT SENTENCE. Bernard ETIENNE wrote " I confirm this de...
almost 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

Make job output switchable

Due to modern availability requirements of applications, more and more CICS regions have to run 24/7. The job output does dramatically increase and the amount of required JES spool space dramatically increases.Nearly every customer has this proble...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

DYNAMICDEL(YES) should be default and warning message needed if EQQCXDS is too large

As mentioned in the Customization Guide under the DYNAMICDEL parameter:Note: It is strongly recommended that DYNAMICDEL(YES) be specified by all users who use significantly the dynamic addition of special resources. If the records dynamically adde...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered

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