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Display called programs in debug

A window/view to display all called programs, functions during a debug session including programs loaded from eglar files.The function should be interactive, i.e. show progress as the debug session is running.The requested option is implementing t...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

New API EXEC CICS RUN TRANID for the CTS 5.4 with the existing terminal environment

We are strictly bound to an existing terminal (TCTTE - entry). The new API is interesting but worthless without TCTTE.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement to the FCAP0008I output message

Hi,This enhancement request concerns the FCAP0008I output message. We would like to have the tape VSN included in the output message as well:FCAP0008I hh.mm.ss MOD 028A ON 650C TO TAPE xxxxxx ON 0C21 - STARTEDwhere xxxxxx=tape VSN. Thank you for y...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

IDz users should be able to use the special characters for their strong passwords ($@#.<+!&]*-%_>?:=).

Users can work in Belgium (one team) or in France (another team). The 3270 emulator is set to a code page 1148 or 1147 respectively. The IDz Eclipse GUI seems to assume or retrieve the default zOS code page IBM-037. There is no option to tell it t...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Debug Tool - add support for protected assembler debugging

Current the Debug Tool does not support debugging of protected assembler modules making it impossible to debug some of our system exits and applications. I'd rather not have to switch to a product that supports this functionality since our user ba...
almost 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support Apache V2.4+

Apache 2.4+ is out, and 2.2+ will be out of service by 12/31/17. The Apache HTTP Server Project will only provide maintenance releases of the 2.2.x flavor through June of 2017, and may provide some security patches beyond this date through at leas...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Improve trap condition on Debug for z/OS

Improve trap condition of task we want to debug by adding MQDATA field.Be able to use this field to specify data to check in MQDATA to begin debug session.
almost 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Component: Other Text- and Input Fields

Is it possible to add the function to cut text-field on defined character like in other component/option?Today it is possible so cut per Word/Character/Normal.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 6 Not under consideration

Define/Exclude System Programs

The ability to define a list of programs as System Programs. There would be no expectation to provide source for these programs, so they would not appear in lists of 'missing' components. There would also be an ability to exclude them from graphs.
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Underline from Displayfile

When you have RI (Reverse Image) on a field it produce a "class" but when you have UL (Underline) it produce a inline style. For a developer it is difficult to be flexibel.I can change a RI in my CSS file to something other, but a inline style is ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 3 Not under consideration