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Z/OS Connect to have option to allow mainframe clients response data to be returned without JSON conversion

Z/OS Connect to have an option to allow mainframe clients response body data to be returned to the calling program without going through JSON to copy code conversion. Currently there are two issues with how the JSON to copy code conversion is hand...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

COBOL should allow generation of a JSON document without a "top level parent name"

JSON documents are not required to have a "top level parent name". The Enterprise COBOL JSON PARSE feature has an option "NAME <name> IS OMITTED" that allows for parsing one of these so-called "anonymous" JSON objects. However, there is curr...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Make GMTRAN EXIT / DISCONNECT setting available to user transactions

CICS/TS 5.5 extended the System Initialisation parameter GMTRAN to include a second option which coudl have the values EXIT (the default) and DISCONNECT. When set to DISCONNECT the behaviour of the CICS supplied signon transactions CESN and CESL w...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Dark teama is not so useful with current color settings

Dark teama is not so useful with current color settings. If choosen then you have to do special adaptions to almost every area and editor to see the data correct or fully. Many users perfer the dark "look".
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

JZOS - Support multi-block logstream reads

We would like to use JZOS functionality to read logstream(s) that are written to by applications running in the OLTP environment but it does not currently support MULTIBLOCK reads, which is much more performant than reading in a single block.
about 3 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

Replace /usr/lpp/cicsts in the CICS Web Assistant script with a variable similar to PATHPREF or USSDIR

Remove hard coded zFS address from the DFHLS2WS (and associated) scripts
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

SSRANGE with Warning Option

With RFE 78190 SSRANGE was enhanced for ZeroLength-Moves (SubOption ZLEN).The Problem of an ABEND is: The Test is immediately stopped.Would it be an option for giving a Message at Runtime (Not the default option),so after a whole test run we could...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

Dependency Resolver must be able to detect CICS submodules

Various forms of called CICS modules all have in common that the text DFHCOMMAREA appears somewhere in the program source, without any EXEC CICS present. It usually is in the LINKAGE SECTION, the PROCEDURE DIVISION USIING clause and/or in a CALL s...
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

Support bi-directional linking between the editor and the JCL Outline view

RDz v9.0.1 only supports linking from the JCL Outline view to the editor. It does not support linking from the editor to the JCL Outline view. If the current line (cursor) changes in the editor the JCL Outline view highlighting does not change to ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

lightweight VS Code plugin for API editor

rolling out and adoption of eclipse based IDZ IDE has been very difficult due to the size, complexity and performance, so is the z/OS Connect API editor
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

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