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TRNID is not recognized as a keyword in CICS program during ADDI build

Hello Team, During building one application, we came across with one error as below.The TRNID is not a recognized but when we checked the same its running fine in Endevor. IBM development team updated that unfortunately the TRNID isn't quite the c...

CKTI Retry Logic

CKTI ended with 2345 because we had a failure on CF structure (INITQ is shared in QSG) causing the shared INITQ to be unavailable. MQ in the meantime recovered the CF struc 17 secs later but CKTI had already ended and so we had to recycle CICS, we...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

mapping left Ctrl key

in ISPF left Ctrl = reset, right Ctrl = Enter. In Rdz you cannot map Ctrl only in preferences --> General --> Keys. And you cannot make a diff between left and right.A solution could be to allow left and right Ctrl in the binding field.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 8 Delivered

Clean Code: Flag (more) unreferenced declarations.

Unused Named Constants, some BASED variables and maybe more declarations are not flagged in the Compilerlisting as UNREFERENCED. It is not relevant to the performance or other things at run-time, but to have a clean code (more maintainable), it wo...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE: provide for outbound API calls from z, enabling z programs to be consumers of APIs, with simplicity

z/OS Connect EE: provide for outbound API calls from z, enabling z programs to be consumers of APIs, with simplicity. z/OS Connect EE is extraordinary product that allows mainframe programs and assets to be accessed and consumed as APIs. With the ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Increase length limit for SYSPARM option

Please increase the length limit for SYSPARM from 64 characters to 1000 characters (as for COPYRIGHT option). Please provide this enhancement in the versions 5.3 and 5.2 as well.
almost 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

enable cut and paste from properties tab in toolkit for API url and doc

from the toolkit properties pane when viewing the properties for an API/service make the URL and DOC links copyable so they can be easily pasted in another tool such as Postman
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Add Joblog messages to Syslog request

When will you be adding joblog messages to Syslog requests? When this is available, what will be externalised - errors only or all event types?
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

Issue with pseudo RBA feature of File manager

We have completed IAM 10.00.02 upgrade .Customer was doing testing for IAM with file manager & found file manager is not reading RBA.Something is up with File Manager though since it’s happening on both IAM V9.4 files and V10.0 files . the iss...
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 6 Delivered

CICS Explorer does not support RASGN definition

UBS is in preperation of usage CICS explorer in the future.In this context we found out, that RAGNDEF's including the MAPPING function are not supported by IBM CICS Explorer.For UBS AG RASGN defs are essential, because we manipulate different envi...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 8 Delivered