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PDS V2 flexibility

This request is to be able to customize the depth of the Persistent data Stores or their number, what the official documentation have called the "default historical interval", as well as the time of switch between one dataset and another
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 4 Delivered

ATTLS for IBM Developer for z/OS, including Enterprise Edition

ATTLS is preferred mechanism for securing connections. IBM Developer for z/OS, including Enterprise Editionshould implement ATTLS support.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered

Binary Literal Support in IMS JDBC V14 Driver

We Need IMS JDBC V14 driver to support BINARY Literal when we try to run SQL using WHERE clause that has LOW values(Binary Fields).
over 7 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Delivered

be able to get channel DFHTRANSACTION in JCICS

in JCICS there is a Task.getTask().getChannel("DFHTRANSACTION"); in the doc it say The named Channel object if it exists, or null if it does not. The named channel will only be returned if it is the current channel, or if it was previously created...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Ability to add TIMEOUT to Enable Cancellation of Disconnected Sessions

After implementing CL/Supersession with multi-logon support and preserve sessions on exit and exit KLSMLTZZ. We found a high number of disconnected sessions due to users closing their emulator, rather than exiting CL/Supersession cleanly. We would...
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Need to override class for a private region (IDz for IMS application with isolation)

Hi,We are working on an ADFz POC.When we want to set up a debug session for an IMS 3270 transaction in IDz debugger (IDz for IMS Application with isolation), we have a problem. The region that starts on mainframe is always started in the same clas...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Enhancements to the CSD Resource Groups View.

It would be nice to have an easy view into what CSD groups are associated with what CSD lists. Could a column "CSD Resource List" be added to the CSD Resource Groups View? Also, other views can be "exported" by using control-C and control-V, and t...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

Enterprise COBOL to support greater than 999,999 lines in source listing

Since the introduction of Enterprise COBOL version 5 in 2013/2014, IBM has been all about eliminating constraints and limits in the COBOL compiler. In Enterprise COBOL version 6, IBM introduced the 64-bit backend processing to support programs of ...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Allow JSON(ENCODING()) to accept CCSID

Recently implemented compiler option JSON(ENCODING(EBCDIC)) only supports the current codepage. We use code page 037 by default. However, the JSON we work with needs to be 1047 due to interactions with other tools. The square brackets are especial...
6 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect: From a Cobol copybook, expose Cobol variables as JSON fields of type Boolean - define and map type Boolean

z/OS Connect: expose Cobol variables as JSON fields of type Boolean. Starting from a Cobol copybook, provide means (from a command line or from the tooling, service or API), to define JSON instance fields (values) of type Boolean, and map them to ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

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