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Using Macro Vars to Define Extract Location Retrieves Only 1 Char in the REST Web Service

The developer is using macro variables to define where on the screen to extract a piece of data and the macro extracts it properly, but the web service built on that macro always replies with only a 1-character string. The macro is using macro var...
6 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

PCOMM to have mouse wheel customizeable

It would be nice if users could configure the mouse wheel on PCOMM settings.This would allow for a way more dynamic scroll on z/OS syslog, netlog, dataset list, dataset contents, etc.Other 3270 emulators already do that and this would be a nice fe...
over 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Uncaptured wait time for CICS webservices

We are seeing a high uncaptured wait time for webservice attach tasks.This time should be captured and recorded in the CICS SMF 110 Performance class record. An auxtrace has shown that the uncaptured time is spent suspended waiting for resource 'R...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Enhance DCAT command to support GDGORDER (LIFO/FIFO)

[11:57:39]GSM@estonia /u/home/gsm $ dls svtlog.syslogd.es.attls.* | xargs -I{} bash -c "echo -n {} - ; dcat {} | head -1 | cut -c1-15" 2>/dev/null Results in the following SVTLOG.SYSLOGD.ES.ATTLS.G4115V00 -Jul 23 16:29:31SVTLOG.SYSLOGD.ES.ATTLS...
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Display the names of libraries that store declarations of tables and variables in generated DB2 precompiler and coprocessor listing.

DCLGEN is used to produce declarations for tables, views, and variables for C, COBOL, or PL/I program, these declarations can be included later in the program via: EXEC SQL INCLUDE member-name END-EXEC. where member-name is the name of the data se...
6 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

CEDA ADD GROUP( ) LIST( ) FIRST or LAST Attribute

We only have 2 options when we ADD group to List in CSD, i.e BEFORE and AFTER.It if difficult wjen you working on huge projects like 200 existing lists, which already contains groups.Ex: If we want to add DB2CONN group in list, it should be added ...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Eliminate the TEMPORARY operand of parameter SSCMNAME as it is not necessary and causes many problems

Currently the SSCMNAME can be coded as (EQQSSCMx,TEMPORARY) or (EQQSSCMx,PERMANENT) where x is a subsystem suffix (for instance letter O for 10.1 release). However it is not necessary to have the TEMPORARY option as to go to the different release ...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Make it easy to find the scripts needed to create the DB2 history database on a non-z/OS platform (UNIX, LINUX,WINDOWS)

Currently, the DB2 history file definitions for a database on z/OS DB2 are provided in SEQQSAMP while the skips needed for the other platforms are only available in a CD image (ISO) that can be obtained by ordering the zWS product via SHOP z SERIE...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Client Certificates Authentication support for GDPS GUI

The customer needs Client Certificates Authentication support for GDPS GUI as the customer will no longer allow the users to login with user credentials (userid/password) to access the mainframe.Users are dependent on this support on productive en...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

CICS Counter API needs ability to list counters defined

The CICS Counter (and DCounter) APIs, give users the following commands: DEFINE COUNTER and DEFINE DCOUNTERDELETE COUNTER and DELETE DCOUNTERGET COUNTER and GET DCOUNTERQUERY COUNTER and QUERY DCOUNTERREWIND COUNTER and REWIND DCOUNTERUPDATE COUNT...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration