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Application Discovery retrieve compile options from JCL

Need to retrieve the compile parameters from the JCL source files . The compile options that are specified in the JCL source files should be stored somehow in the AD database , so we could retrieve them.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

API Properties & components link

About API Properties:When a user is looking for an APi properties (From z/os connect EE server view) he can see some informations that are fine but non exaustive. It may be more interesting to have an overview about all files that are dependant (j...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Show successors "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow"

Currently the CA-7 graph will show:1. Triggered by Jobs2. It's Dependencies (before it can run), these are the Successors of other jobs3. Jobs it will triggerThe CA-7 graph does NOT show Successors
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

ANZ ADDI deployment

Virtual resource connections are not being shown in the CA7 Job triggering flow.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Externalize the PSBNAME for debugging sessions

Parker Hannifin has requested we add the PSBNAME of the program that is being debugged. This would be very helpful information since the program can be referenced by multiple PSBs. This is especially helpful when debugging IMS MPR programs.
over 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Include a hex dump of STATIC and AUTOMATIC storage in the PLIDUMP output and have the compiler produce a listing giving these

AUTOMATIC and STATIC variables are not included in PLIDUMP.
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Notification de la fin de l'extraction d'un composant

Actuellement , quand nous demandons une génération de composant, nous ne somme averti que de la bonne prise en compte de la génération, mais nous ne sommes pas au courant quand le composant est correctement généré et extrait sur notre serveur. Nou...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Userexit 7 for IPIC connections

Userexit 7 should be working also with IPIC connections to CICS zOS that we can send RACF user credentials for verification to CICS zOS through TXSeries from a application on our windows CICS clients. As an alternative IBM Communications server sh...
over 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhance XPCFTCH to overcome PCUE_BRANCH_ADDRESS limitations.

XPCFTCH is given control before an application program is called by CICS.Various products use XPCFTCH to front-end an application program for various reasons.CICS allows for multiple exit programs to be enabled, and each exit program is called in ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DFHSTUP show only JVMSERVER state: Enabled if CICS is running in the 24H mode.

DFHSTUP shows only JVMSERVER state: Enabled if CICS is running in the 24H mode. Otherwise (e. g. if CICS was terminated before midnight) always JVMSERVER state: Disabled was listed. Even if the JVM server was active during the entire runtime of th...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration