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Policy Rule to use Header value simply IF header is present

Today we can create rules to take action based on Conditions with EQUAL, AND, and OR operations. for example:<conditions> <header name="cicsTran" value="KE18,KE20"/> </conditions> <actions> <set property="cicsTransId" va...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Null array gives IGZ0339W instead of IGZ0326I

We are parsing JSON containing: "myList":["item1","item2","last"], with structure defined: 05 MYLIST OCCURS 5 TIMES PIC X(10). This works as expected. However, sometimes the list is empty so the service returns: "myList":null, This thro...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Delivered

Purge CDBT txn

System: CDBT txnActor: Purge CDBT Ability to "PURGE" CDBT txn. Situation arises when IMS is failing and several CICS regions simultaneously issue CDBC DIS IMM to "failing" IMS.IMS appears to only handle a set number DISCONNECTS from CICS. This res...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

API First should deliver copybook only without project structure

When running the zC EE Gradle build with the option to only deliver a copybook, the entire project structure gets delivered as well. The creation and editing of a service should include developer relevant aspects only. This project structure has n...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

RDz cumulative Code Coverage Report

RDz has a function that merge the code coverage results to show in a view, but i need to generate report for this merged results. Rdz has this function only for individual results, and we need for the merged result.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Select which teps are used with custom dashboards

It is currently possible to define up to 6 teps in SMU. Unfortunately, you cannot select components for every server. The custom dashboards that you create automatically only retrieve the data where components have been selected. "Default TEPS" It...
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Delivered

Help identify corrupt APIs in seconds

Together with a customer we ran a zCEE v3 PoC. We ran into trouble where we could not connect to the APIs on the zCEE server anymore and not all APIs were loaded, receiving cryptic error messages in the Eclipse GUI and in zCEE messages.log. We cou...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Open CICS - TCPIPS automatically after a TCP/IP restart

CICS - TCPIPS goes to closed state if any outage in TCP/IP, but it does not open automatically when the TCP/IP is back. We have to manually open the TCPIPS in CICS using CEMT. Can the CICS-TCPIPS set to open state as automatic when the TCPIP ...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

DB2 Record Support for Types IFCID 412, IFCID 411, IFCID 402

We're using IBM Z Operational Analytics in our environment both for Syslog analysis and for several type of SMF records to be collected and forwarded to other enterprise analytics systems as well. We'd like to enhance those records with DB2 SMF re...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Delivered

Missing of asynchronous mode for calls of parser or for other queries results in far too many freezes and white screens

During the edition of members, too many blockages appears (freeze, white screen..).They are problematics as they prevent the developers from doing their job. They can last several seconds up to several minutes.When they last several minutes, the o...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered