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FIXCAT for easy Maintenance of PDTOOLS

With z/OSMF it is quite easy to check the own software configuration against a FIXCAT-List, for example:Are all available z/OS 2.1 PDSE-PTFs are applied So it would be fine to get a FIXCAT Entry for checking against the latest PDTools PTFs. Not on...
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

Support multiple conditions per Policy system rule

Allow a system policy rule to be defined when multiple conditions evaluate true. For example when the MQ connection is enabled AND the DB2 connection is enabled. Another example would be when multiple bundle resources achieve a desired state.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Display DFHCSD being accessed by CEDA/B/C

We have a client that has many CICS CSDs. We are in the process of consolidating them, but it is a long process. It is convenient to have a "CSDOR" (CSD-Owning-Region) to allow a single point where CEDA/B/C can be used to manage any CSD and to tha...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CLSS - Preserve Session with multiple logon from the same user

Customer have the possibility to activate on PC more than one CL/SS session, but this tool have a different behavior from the Session Manager because it isn't possible to have on the same PC two CL/SS session with the same applications. Using the ...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Add MFA Support for Debug Profile Editor in Eclipse IDE

Currently some ADFz products (such as File Manager and Fault Analyzer) work perfectly with IDz Eclipse IDE while using MFA and PassTickets, while others, such as the Debug Profile Editor do not. Additionally, if you try to use the Debug Profile Ed...
about 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Delivered

IQIBUTIL add a FINDTEXT option to copy the selected members as can be done via ISPF

Via ISPF FINDTEXT one can copy the selected members to another file for further processing, but using IQIBUTIL in scheduled batch jobs this is not possible.
8 months ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

SlackBytes on Sync-Structures should be flagged

Given Structure:05 MyStructure.10 FirstItem PIC X(3).10 SecondItem S9(8) BINARY SYNC.After FirstItem, the Compiler will insert a non-accessable Byte, called SlackByte, for Alignment.I need a Compiler Message (Informational), every time when a Slac...
over 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Amend DELAY API to be aware if it is cancelled.

When a CICS DELAY is issued with a request ID, the issuing application has no idea whether it waited for the full duration specified on the DELAY or if it was woken up early due to another task CANCELing the request ID. Would it be possible for CI...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

navigate to remote system data sets from local projects

It would be great to navigate to remote data sets from a local JCL. Nowadays with all the projects migrating to git, all our projects are local, and of course, all our JCLs are local. For that reason, we would need to navigate with ctrl click in a...
8 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

USS filters in Export Remote JAR dialog

When developing Java batch applications our teams want to execute and test them as fast as possible. Therefore the "Export Remote Jar" functionality is used to reduce the number of manual steps. The dialog when selecting the remote target director...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Delivered

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