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TIM support for Passpharse

Our customer has decided to change the lenght of TSO passwords. They have decided to go for passphrase (9-100 characters) instead of passwords(8 characters). Currently the TIM logon screen will not support passphrases. Also, the password field is ...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Missing context menu for EXEC SQL CALL

When calling a stored procedure with "exec sql call" no context menu (View, Browse, Edit) to jump to the source (here a stored procedure source) is offered.See: missing context menu call_sp_1.jpg. If I call a "normal" Cobol program in the source, ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 7 Delivered

Allow assignments with UNION if they are equal

Allow assignments with UNION if they are equal. Small Example:PLI003: PROC OPTIONS(MAIN); DCL 1 ST_01 UNION, 5 DATC CHAR(10), 5 DATB BIN FIXED(15); DCL 1 ST_02 LIKE ST_01; ST_02 = ST_01; END PLI003; IBM1669I Target in assignment is a UNION. or wit...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Create z/OS Project from Git Repo root

Currently you can create a Z/OS Project from the eGIT Repositories with a right-click on a sub-folder in a Git Repo. As some organizations have a multi-repo strategy, it should be possible to create the z/OS Project from the Git Repo Root folder.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Delivered

Adding arrays as request parameters

We need ZOS Connect to support query parameters as arrays to keep them as arrays, while converting the swagger to Copybooks rather then converting them to a single string
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Improve UUID4 Performance

We are now generating hundreds of millions of GUIDs using the COBOOL UUID4 function. ANY performance improvements in the future will definitely be appreciated. I am a capacity planner and prior to recommending the function to the application teams...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Permit the use of % (Generical) in CP_BUSINESS_APPL Lookup table columns

It is not possible the use of % in CP_BUSINESS_APPL Lookup table columns. This is causing an error in the update of CP_CPU_WKLDA_T table, once the column "BUSINESS_APPL" in CP_CPU_WKLD_T table is updated by the code: W_BUS = VALUE(LOOKUP BUSINESS_...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Delivered

Enhance EPLI DISPLAY Command (Route-,Descriptorcodes)

Hello The EPLI DISPLAY Compile option determines how the DISPLAY statement performs I/O. This sets the options (e.g. WTO Routcode, Descriptor Code) for the Display Command I´d like to see more flexibility in the DISPLAY Command to allow override o...
about 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Add REGEX built-in function to support regular expressions

We would like to have regular expressions available via a built-in function with the following syntax: rc = REGEX( index, length, pattern, string, [ , start ] [ , codepage ] ); The function sets the value for the <index> and <length> o...
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

LPARNAME in SMF110 records

We would like to generate the Mobile Workload Pricing Report; we are using SMF110 with CICSPA.But in SMF110 records we only have the SMFID field and not the LPARname (that we can find in SMF89 records)We have no common fields between the SMF110 an...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

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