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Filteringselect dojo widget

We are missing the dojo component FilteringSelect in RBD. Availability of this widget would provide great improvement when picking restricted values from a combobox, combined with typing to filter the values.At this moment this can only be done th...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Request For Enhancement

Hi Developer,Modify the HSISUDEL job/program to add an option that would allow us to retain Usage Log records when HSISUDEL is run.
almost 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Delivered

Enhance z/OS Connect to fall back to basic authentication if certificate is for an unauthorized user

Currently it appears that if a program running in CICS does not specify to send a client certificate, CICS is then sending it's certificate to z/OS Connect. In our case this ID does not have invoke access to the API so the attempt fails at that po...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

SMPE usermod for Hourglass

The Hourglass product needs to zap the z/OS nucleus (IEANUC01) CSECT IEATSTCK in order to fully function. This is currently done with a zap and is a nuisance since the zap is done without SMPE support. This is problematic if further service is app...
almost 8 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Delivered

Support conversion of ASA print characters in text mode for CopyToHFS

When using the DBB-provided CopyToHFS API to copy compiler listings from MVS to USS, the listings are being corrupted. This is because the function does not properly convert and preserve the ASA print characters in text mode to USS. Customer is re...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

Requesting ability to locate fields by name when creating/modifying Templates

I work with users on how to effectively use our mainframe tools. We have a number of large data structures here - the one in a case presented to me has over 700 fields. Setting up a template for a large structure can be cumbersome. In the host pro...
about 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

(TPFUG/Visa) Need to remediate the overhead of special linkage libraries being in loadsets

Frequently Entered Program (FEP) support provides the means to alleviate the cost of having a program in a loadset that is entered many times by the same ECB. The FEP support allows an ECB to determine the version it should use by locking the base...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide ZFILE sort command

Provide a way to sort output from ZFILE commands. Many ported ZFILE commands do not have all options supported and the ability to sort on z/TPF the ZFILE output is essential in quickly finding details without having to use ZPAGE or cut/paste or wr...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Tablename COLLECTION should be changed

The table COLLECTION in the DBB ddl is named after the z/OS DB2 reseved word COLLECTION. The table should be renamed (e.g. DBBCOLECTION) so that customers don't have to do changes to the ddl before its execution.
about 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Delivered

Provide Executing Program Information in jls

I would like to see the currently executing program as a capability in jls. This would allow automation and scripts to detect any jobs running particular programs (by name) and add another data column to intelligently filter data by. For example, ...
about 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Delivered

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