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Improve startup time of build environment groovyz

For builds with a small build lists - such as user builds or feature branch builds, the startup time for the environment of groovyz (including JAVA and the interpretation of the groovy scripts) takes a significant time. While the personal or share...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

configurability of RAFC group names

The RACF group names (i.a. DBBADMNS, DBBUSERS, DBBGUEST) used in DBB should be configurable so they can be changed to adhere to company name conventions. Otherwise it can be difficult to roll out DBB Version 2.
about 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

Add the hability to process NULL values in COBOL

In order to use some REST/JSON APIs, we need to be able to process NULL value in COBOL. We had oppened the TS004435032 support case on this matter. Is it possible to add cobol support for NULL values or to add it to the JSON PARSE & GENERATE J...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Delivered

z/OS Connect SMF123 Enhancements

Objective To add more data to the z/OS Connect Audit record for auditing and monitoring purposes. Description As the SMF123 record is described as the z/OS Conned Audit record, it would be appropriate that more information from USS log files shoul...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

GDPS Procedure to remove PPRC links without need to do a new geoparm config

To make the removal of PPRC links, it's necessary to alter the GEOPARM file and do a new geoparm config into GDPS, process that disables the hyperswap feature, exposing the environment.
almost 10 years ago in GDPS 8 Delivered

JSONPUT generate special value null

Please provide the ability to generate keyword ‘null’ when a value is empty.Suggest a new attribute JSONNULL or similar. This would be mutually exclusive of JSONOMIT but could use the same criteria – empty/zero-length string or zero. Alternatively...
10 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

JSONPUT suppress empty array occurrences

Reference case TS015700520 Please provide ability to suppress empty occurrences of arrays when using JSONPUT* functions. If any element of the array is present, provide that array occurrence. If all elements of an array are empty, suppress the gen...
10 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

FAZ Plug-in: Fault List should be sorted by combined Date_Time value

(Please also see Case TS008090491 for a detailed discussion of the issue that this RFE wishes to resolve) Hi, When using the ISPF interface, if the Fault List is sorted by Date, values of Time are sorted accordingly within each date value, regardl...
almost 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE - Policies to support DB2 via REST Client Service Provider

Currently Policies are available in z/OS Connect for CICS and IMS related API. Nationwide would like to see that same capability made available for DB2 for via the REST Client service provider. (Split out from RFE 124692: https://www.ibm.com/devel...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Amendment in DFHWB0112I XMEOUT parameters/Message inserts

CICS doesn't really need an additional check (i.e. option 3) for secured SSL connection (HTTPS) while web domain initialization. Instead, this should be checked during HTTP authentication for the requests that are made using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN or ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

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