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Invoke COBOL preprocessor extension from another plugin

It should be possible to invoke the preprocessor from a plugin. At the moment you have to select "source - preprocessor - identify with preprocessor" from the editor. This option should be available from a plugin.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

Ability to turn on Internal Trace when Region Hung

Ability to turn on CICS internal trace when there is a tight looping transaction, that eventually gets abended with AKEC. This would give more information that exception trace entry *EXC*. This would be like CEKL, that would allow trace turned on ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

zUnit to be available on VSC & CRW

Currently zUnit is only available on IDz. Test cases can be executed out of IDz but, test cases and recordings can only be created within IDz. This causes a lock-in in IDz, so this prevents using other IDEs like VSC or CodeReady Workspaces. We nee...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

zOSCEE - Share Base Path

API project 1 API name : corebanking_1.0_dev1 basepath : corebanking path of operation : /withdraw API project 2 API name : corebanking_1.0_dev2 basepath : corebanking path of operation : /querybalance. zCEE reports error when deploy the second pr...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Cics Maven Plugin

I want a maven plugin witch gives my the same possibility like the liberty-maven-plugin for a hole cics region. Target for this all is a zospt image, so that i can configure a hole cics region based on a maven project.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - >>NOP for >>EVALUATE directive

In addition to our RFE 145885, we suggest the provision of a directive that does no action to be associated with a >>WHEN condition in a >>EVALUATE directive. It could be a >>NOP or >>CONTINUE directive. It is sometimes eas...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Db2 needs to use Security in connection

ADDI Db2 for zOS option does not allow the customer to use a secure connection to their mainframe via Db2 Connect
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

The function to import a test file as a stub is not available for local projects.

The function to import a test file (local or remote) as a stub is not available for local projects.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

Allow Association data to pass named areas to allow multiple applications to use association data.

This is a repeat of the earlier RFE 67116. The request is to allow a named area of storage, potentially like a container or an area associated with a program or exit, to flow along with the task association data. The data should be able to be set ...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Simplify Omegamon security (RKANMODU) - only external

We have no need to use the old Classic Omegamon interfaces anymore, we only use the Enhanced 3270 and the TEPS for Omegamon monitoring. While all security is external (RACF) we have no need for the EXIT related old (internal) security implementati...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration