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CARMA - RDZ 8031 - FIND OR LOCATE MEMBER

Please add a "FIND MEMBER" or "LOCATE MEMBER" option on CARMA folders. It makes it much easier to go directly to a member. We should not have to create and then delete a filter view to get this result.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Not under consideration

Contextual compilation variables

It might be interesting to have compiler variables indicating the current context corresponding to the position in the source code:- name / type of the current Division: Identification, Environment, Data, Procedure- name / type of the current Sect...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL - Compilation directive >>MESSAGE to produce a message with a severity level

It would be useful to have a compilation directive to trigger a message with a severity level that would be rendered on the Compile Listing and that would also control the general return code of the compilation. This directive would only be enable...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Not under consideration

RDz user needs the capability to specify how <HLQ> parameter in property groups gets resolved.

RDz users should have the capability to specify how the <HLQ> parameter in property group definitions gets resolved. Currently, if user's source is in a common PDS (i.e TEST.COBOL.SRC), <HLQ> gets resolved to the HLQ of the source libr...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Explorer needs grouped connections to relate ftp connection and cmci connection together

RBS has multiple sysplex and CICSplex.When switching CMCI session the related FTP session does not switch automatically.Which means the explorer can deliver incorrect results because of a mismatch between active CMCI and FTP session connections. A...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 1 Not under consideration

Several suggestions regarding RDz CARMA New Endevor Package dialogue

This RFE covers a couple concerns encountered going through the New -> Endevor Package dialogue. Here are the issues that customer has identified: 1) The first panel displayed has the title "New CARMA Member". This title should be "Create New P...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

Extend CICS' integrated digital signature support to include SOAP Headers.

The customer is sending a SOAP message to a business partner and requires one or more SOAP headers to be digitally signed. However, the CICS WS-Security implementation will only sign the SOAP *Body* in outbound messages, as discussed here: publib....
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

PL1 with PCB pointer reference

AD doesn't build the PCB that is referenced by a pointer correctly
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow VT to reference Alliases

Customer programs reference table aliases rather than base tables. CICS VT should provide a mechanism to work with DB2 alias names as well as base table names.
about 13 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Expand Source to process override statements

Application is using procedures a lot. When looking for where files are used the answer sometimes is a procedure inside a Job.AD offers 'Expand Source', which pulls in the procedure. Notation is looking very similar to same functionality on mainfr...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 6 Not under consideration