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Add zUnit Functionality to COBOL Modules not in a PDS

Currently, you are only able to generate a test case using zUnit if the COBOL Program is located in a PDS file. Here at my organization, we often work with programs not retrieved from Endevor and directly to a PDS, instead leaving them in what we ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Delivered

Require override for API requester in server.xml under zosconnect_apiRequesters

We have a requirement to set requireAuth=false for all API requester scenario. Today, you can do this by creating an apiRequester configuration element every time you deploy a new API requester function. This is not ideal since we don't want to up...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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...
about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Provide encrypting find/file databases similar to z/TPFDF encryption

As PCI, PII, and GDPR requirements become more and more stringent, it will be as important to encrypt traditional Find/File databases as much as z/TPFDF databases. IBM already provides the built-in ability to encrypt/decrypt through database defin...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Enhance description on the number of occurrences

** Context **My customer consolidated ZWS controller from 20 to 1 for improving operability. With the consolidation, the number of occurrences in one CP became 20 times larger, specifically from 30,000 occurrences per CP to 600,000 occurrences in ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered

Code Review on zOS works but produces java exceptions and FrameworkEvent ERROR

Running Code Review AKGCR on zOS produces the following java exception as well as several Framework Event errors:!MESSAGE FrameworkEvent ERRORandJVMJZTK2999W jzos.jar build version '2.4.4 2012-07-27' does not match libjzos DLL build version '2.4.8...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Code Coverage 1 Delivered

Set lower limit for TRTABSZ SIT parm

The CICS Internal Trace Table TRTABSZ parameter has defaulted to 12M since version 5.3. Before that it was 4M in CICS 5.2. Yet we still have customers coming in with extremely small trace table sizes (64K, 128K, 256K, etc.) that would on the surfa...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Add support for 64-bit storage to EXEC CICS INQUIRE STORAGE

GETMAIN64 was added with CICS/TS 5.1, however the INQUIRE STORAGE command still only returns 4-byte address values, and has no option for HIGH DSA pools.This is a request to add a INQUIRY STORAGE64 command for high DSA pools, so developers can dia...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

RDz V9 CLOSES ALL OPEN ARTIFACTS WHEN A TIME OUT OCCURS

In version 9.0, when you are performing analysis on programs, JCL, copybooks, etc. and a time out occurs, all artifacts are closed. In previous versions of RDz, a time out of the z/OS connection left the programs, copybooks, JCL and all tabs open....
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

z/OS Connect log retention

In z/OS Connect, the Liberty runtime does only size-based log rolling and you can only specify the max number of files to keep. Customer is looking to retain the z/OS Connect log one day at a time and say keep them for a months time. Similar to Ap...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

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