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fieldformat not changed - case sensitive

We imported a pl/1 Structur. After import alle the fields in lower case changed to uppercase, this is not nice, because the developper has to change the format every time he changes the service. It would be good if the fields keep the format defin...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 6 Delivered

JSON GENERATE : Conditional SUPPRESS

JSON object, unlike copy cobol, are flexible : a JSON object can have non-mandatory name/value pairs missing. Currently with JSON GENERATE : - for a string, when the value is all space, a single space is kept. - for a number, when the value is 0, ...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Delivered

Userid information should be displayed in ZCEE Early Failure 401 Authorization requests logged by Omegamon/JVM

The ability to monitor early authorization failures HTTP 401 is now available in z/OS Connect and Omegamon/JVM but the userid and mapped userid is not displayed for these failure requests. The userids are retrieved by using getUserPrincipal() whic...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

As a database administrator, I want to be able to tell from the console message what application program caused a dump within the TPFDF middleware, so that I don’t need to post process the dump to get this information.

TPFDF itself checks for errors and can detect many error conditions. In these cases, TPFDF and correctly tags the dump message with the calling application program in a centralized error handling routine. However, if the dump happens in the TPFDF ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

JSONGET support for null objects

JSON text includes a JSON object that is sometimes valued and sometimes null. When the object is null, we receive ONCODE 5084. Reference case TS016062055 Given the following structure: Dcl 1 outStruc , 3 name0 char(10) , 3 name1 , 5 first char(10)...
7 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Add the hability to process NULL values in COBOL

In order to use some REST/JSON APIs, we need to be able to process NULL value in COBOL. We had oppened the TS004435032 support case on this matter. Is it possible to add cobol support for NULL values or to add it to the JSON PARSE & GENERATE J...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Delivered

Restore the CP at the moment just before an human error

It happened that by mistake an operator made a massive action on the CP (he completed all the application with status=W/S/E). In this case the RERUN of the erronuosly completed applications was not the solution because the previous batch complete ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

FAZ Plug-in: Fault List should be sorted by combined Date_Time value

(Please also see Case TS008090491 for a detailed discussion of the issue that this RFE wishes to resolve) Hi, When using the ISPF interface, if the Fault List is sorted by Date, values of Time are sorted accordingly within each date value, regardl...
almost 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Increase the granularity of the SAF role-based rules for modification of the LCP Management profile

Current SAF role-based rules allow the locking down of the management profile options. We would like to entirely lock down the ability to change the retention period of a management profile once it's been created. Currently we can't do that withou...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Delivered

z/OS Connect SMF123 Enhancements

Objective To add more data to the z/OS Connect Audit record for auditing and monitoring purposes. Description As the SMF123 record is described as the z/OS Conned Audit record, it would be appropriate that more information from USS log files shoul...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered