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RBD/EGL support for DB2 for z/OS XML columns

RBD/EGL doesn't support DB2 for z/OS XML column type. This represents a significant obstacle for EGL developers to integrate their appliactions with DB2 objects used by Websphere/java appliactions.
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

Possibility to use "?" to add Member Mapping character by character

As it's possible on filters in MVS Files, we want the possibilty to add a member mapping in z/OS File System Mapping and filter character by character with "?" like for example "M??????" (mapping only for programs/copybooks on 7 characters beginin...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Securing RTMC communications

We are looking at migrating to RTMC as a replacement for the Tivoli Monitoring agent. Having secure communications via TLS 1.2 has been identified as a requirement.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Delivered

Enhance File Manager IMS to use same Security for DLI mode as BMP mode uses.

File Manager IMS We are converting from FileAid/IMS to File Manager IMS. With FileAid we relied on its built in security for BMP and DLI mode. We would like File Manager IMS to use the same security setup for DLI mode as BMP mode uses. Without thi...
about 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Defining separate VLAN for primary and alternate

When defining an OSA1PRIM/OSA1ALT redundant pair of interfaces, the VLAN tag defined for the Primary is forced on the Alternate when an interface failover takes place. We don’t believe this is correct if these interfaces are not part of an LACP ag...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Perform UNASSIGN Dialog Needs "Force" Option

In the "CICSPLEX Definitions" table, when I right-click on a CICSPlex and select "Unassign from CMAS...", there is no "Force" option on the resulting dialog box. Can the Force option be added to Explorer? Doc for unassigning: https://www.ibm.com/s...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

Reduce vulnerabilities with TCPIP connections by providing RACF Keyring support.

There is a risk that exploitation of TCP/IP connection vulnerabilities by a malicious actor could lead to the loss of Customer data and potentially service outage. All IzWS access would need to be reviewed which could lead to access being remov...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Program Control Flow Export as PNG

There is only a way to export the program control flow graphic as *.svg which is a vector format, that can't be used by many third party applications (like MS Office, RTF, Notes, Printing, ...) and always needs to be converted for other use. Pleas...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Remote file not found - show hint message

I open a remote cobol file and add a bookmark for it.Then I close the editor. Now I delete the file on the mainframe.When I try to open the deleted file by double clicking on the bookmark, the following exception is thrown in the logfile.See bookm...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 5 Delivered

Improve COBOL 5 IPCS dump formatting

Using IPCS under COBOL 4.2 and earlier, it was relatively easy to locate a program's Working Storage. Under COBOL 5, this is a multi-step manual process. This request is to improve COBOL 5's IPCS dump formatting routine to make this easier for cus...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

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