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Ability to set the current timestamp into a request z/OS Connect sends to a backend system

A lot of input messages for transactions contain a timestamp telling the transaction program when an input message has been sent by a distributed application or by a host system of a business partner. For instance application-based transaction exp...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support long running transactions in zAPM Connect

zAPM Connect needs to support the collection of statistics at Syncpoint intervals instead of only at the end of a unit of work or transactions.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

zTPFDF should provide an "aging" report similar to VERIFY chain counts, to show the time interval since the prime was last updated.

As a database administrator, I want to know how long it has been since a given sub-file was last updated so that stale, obsolete and no longer needed data can be more easily identified. The idea is to Enhance CRUISE to provide “Aging” statistics i...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

DEFV Batch Function

Is it possible to include the SMS parameters such as DATACLAS, MGMTCLAS and STORCLAS to the output? It would make much easier to create similar datasets.
10 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Ability to add ZIIP when deploying Instances

Ability to add ZIIP Processor during provissionning
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

Allow JSON PARSE to process anonymous table objects

Allow the ability to parse a JSON string that contains an anonymous table object.Currently unless the table object is named parsing fails.Could expand the NAME OMITTED Clause to allow this.
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 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 ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Data Conversion issue for array elements in input - z/OS Connect

As per the testing at DNB, CHAR type of data variables gets converted to LOW-VALUES when they are missing from payload but the same CHAR type of variables are converted to ‘SPACES' when they are used as part of array in input and missing from payl...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Visualization of the Cross-application Callgraph

During a Cross-application callgraph, we would like to be able to view only the links between the projects selected without having the other projects linked.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 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
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

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