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CICS configuration elements that need USS paths should allow use of symbols

All CICS configuration elements, whether housed in CSD, CPSM, or USS files, that require or permit the specification of a USS path value should permit the use of symbols in that value. For example, on the CONFIGFILE parameter of a PIPELINE definit...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Stealth mode for 'VSM DEF ***POOL &VIRTTR** DEFER' in the pnls member KLHGBL

Please create a stealth mode for the command to define virtual terminals because the messages cause the TLVLOG to be extremely large. Over 2 million lines a day.
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Flag packed fields with even number of digits

The compiler should flag numeric packed field definitions with even numbers. E.g. S99 packed decimal should be flagged.
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Delivered

More complete C++11 support in xlC

PMR 59710 300 624 showed that the support for the standard C++ library, C++11 level, is incomplete. Please speed up the work on that. In particular, unique_ptr is not present in the standard library, shared_ptr is in a nonstandard namespace std::t...
over 8 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

Implement search dialog for -DR editor as it is already for -CP

If it could be possible to implement, for some pertinent editors (I think -DR of course but also -CE for Segment and Screen), Please implement a functionality of a search in the same way with the search implemented on -CP tab. Thanks.
almost 3 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

Provide ZFILE function to display largest file system files and/or directories that can be sorted on zTPF

Provide a way to display file system usage that can be sorted. Currently ZFILE du does not support an option to sort output by file/directory size. The output can be very large and is difficult to manually scan for the largest files. We need funct...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Don't stop at entry to COBOL nested programs

For debugging of CICS transactions, using DTCN with LoadMod or CU specified, there should be an option so that the debugger does not automatically stop upon entry in to COBOL nested programs.This causes debugging of programs with nested programs t...
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add TLSv1.2 support to FTP client of Personal Communications

The Personal Communications FTP Client (as of level 6.0.16) does not support the TLSv1.2 protocol. The highest supported TLS protocol level is TLSv1.0 (see PMR 80620,033,724).TLSv1.0 is outdated for a while. It lacks support for the various securi...
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

Enable support for ENUM Usage in BAQJS2LS Utility

The BAQJS2LS utilities does not process enums presented as input. It issues the following message:DFHPI9701E Unsupported JSON schema. The JSON schema keyword "enum" is not supported.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Reference to individual array member in the mapper

z/OS Connect API Toolkit~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Require the ability to convert an OCCURS table to individual fields in a Service so that each occurrence of a field can be individually included, named, and referenced from the using API. For example, we ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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