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Provide a Java 8 compiled JZOS jar via Maven central

Recently, a Java 11 compiled version of the JZOS jar has been added to maven central allowing build tools such as Maven and Gradle to add it as a dependency with less friction for projects and developers. Since this jar has been compiled with Java...
12 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 5 Delivered

Include RSU, RSL & CARS level in current state inventory reporting.

With the advent of Continuous Delivery, software “version” levels are becoming less relevant as a gauge of product level currency, as is the concept of “N” or “N-1”. Vendors are choosing to make SPE (Small Programming Enhancements) available on a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Delivered

Add Eclipse based Rexx editor

It has been about two yeasr since some one has requested this and got declined so I thought I would try again. Please add an Eclipse based Rexx editor. It doesn't need to do a lot. The base Eclipse editing actions, color highlighting, outline view...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered

Allow un-named elements in JSON text

Enable an option to allow parsing of JSON text that contains elements that are not declared in the target structure. Currently this results in an error when using jsonGetValue builtin function. IBM0725S ONCODE=5065 Name in JSON source does not ...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

scheduled task to send a report with a list of all Storage Groups and the Percent Used Space for them

scheduled task to send a report with a list of all Storage Groups and the Percent Used Space for them - I need list of all Storage groups send to Email with % free space as per schudele
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Reporting 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE - Enable multiple RACF Groups to be assigned to Global Interceptors

Please consider allowing multiple RACF Groups to be assigned to globalOperationGroup, globalInvokeGroup, and globalReaderGroup. Currently you can only assign multiple groups to globalAdminGroup. Also would like a way to specify that anyone that ha...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Reduce and/or eliminate CICS statistics with zero use count

Can there be a toggle to suppress cutting statistics records if there is no activity? Deciding which to suppress could be different for different records and different customers, so I'm asking for something that I'm not sure there is a good (easy)...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Remove ACTIVE JOBS filter under JES

Due to active jobs filter as it is driving extremely high CPU on the Host system and slowing down the Development environment for everyone. We want to remove that option while packaging the IDZ.
12 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Allow CICS to share SSL Keyrings even if they run under different userIDs

Hi, Currently a CICS region can only use the SSL keyring that is owned by the region owner ID. We can't share same keyring between multiple regions if they run under different owner IDs. With the increase in number of CICS regions, its becoming ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Possibility to suppress the server URL in error messages

VA tester tried to provide an invalid input where the input data exceeds the maximum length. The actual ZConnect URL is sent back in the error message as part of the response. {"errorMessage":"BAQR0429W: API RetrieveCreditChargeCardFulfillmentArra...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered