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Provide a token which will allow correlation of a z/OS Connect request and the work executed in the related z/OS subsystem(s)

In order to build a complete picture of a transaction in a z/OS Connect environment there must be a mechanism which will allow the user to understand the relationship between a z/OS Connect request and the work that's executed on behalf of the req...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Original Client Certificate Userid in CICS Monitoring Record

When a HTTP request, running in CICS Liberty, is authenticated by a client certificate the CICS monitoring record does not contain the correct userid. That does not affect runtime operation of the user task, but the task will be associated with th...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

GDPS and LCP reporting. More functions needed

It would be great if we could use sort on the VPCPLCS3 panel in GDPS. Maybe in combination with the filter command. Ie a command like this:filter used(80,gt) sorted descending
over 3 years ago in GDPS 2 Delivered

Passphrase support for Rational Business Developer

Passphrase to generate the EGL source to COBOL is not supported using RBD 9.6
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Delivered

Change description of submenus

Hello, we want to change the description of the submenus. Can you help?
5 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Fault Analyser : Retrieve Cobol Special Register values in Dump

It would be very useful to have the Cobol Register value included in the Fault Analyzer Dump.In a Cobol Dump, when value contained in Cobol Special Register are involved in the cause of the abend, there's currently no way to find them in the Fault...
over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

CICS Preprocessor LIB option

The CICS preprocessor creates required COBOL Compiler Options including the LIB command. The LIB option is no longer supported with COBOL 5 and 6. Please create a CICS('cobol5') option which can be included in COBOL Compiler Option directives to m...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

ADDI-Support for current version of COBOL

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the COBOL scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS.

Support of PhoneGap / Apache Cordova

With the Mobile preview: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en_US#/wiki/W75c8733d99bb_4d55_9ee8_4dbc8c56ebee/page/EGL%20Mobile%20Web%20Preview you can create Mobile Websites. But when you want to make use of hardwa...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

LIST Option causes issues with messages from COBOL 5.2 compiler

When compile parm LIST is used with the parm FLAG(I,I), compiler diagnostic messages that are supposed to be printed at the end of the source listing (page 327 Programming Guide SC14-7382-03) are in fact printing in the middle of the output ahead ...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered