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Support of PhoneGap / Apache Cordova

With the Mobile preview: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en_US#/wiki/W75c8733d99bb_4d55_9ee8_4dbc8c56ebee/page/EGL%20Mobile%20Web%20Preview you can create Mobile Websites. But when you want to make use of hardwa...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

LIST Option causes issues with messages from COBOL 5.2 compiler

When compile parm LIST is used with the parm FLAG(I,I), compiler diagnostic messages that are supposed to be printed at the end of the source listing (page 327 Programming Guide SC14-7382-03) are in fact printing in the middle of the output ahead ...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Allow Multiple Search Strings

This is a request to enhance the IDz Remote z/OS File Search to allow the user to enter multiple search strings in the "Search string" field. While the field allows for wildcards and escape characters, there is not a way to enter multiple search s...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Provide an Outline view for JES output, similar to the Outline view for a COBOL program.

Similar to the Outline view of a COBOL program, add an Outline view of a JES output (entire job) that provides the ability to jump to the ‘next' or ‘previous' JES file or any other JES file within that job. This would be similar to the Prev/Next c...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

CICS Liberty servers are unable to tolerate changing zFS mount points

Every CICS JVMserver region has to shut down when an lpar holding the HFS mount point is IPL'd and the mount point gets moved to another lpar. Having to shut down all these regions would defeat the purpose of a CICSPlex for high availability. whic...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

User set in CICS Liberty TAI should be accounted in SMF

CICS Liberty Profile uses the user set in the authorization header for SMF accounting.While the transaction is running we can find in Omegamon for CICS the user which was set by methode"TAIResult.create(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK, personalizedUser)...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Add new warning message for misuse of a literal as output argument

We would like to get warning messages issued, when a literal is passed as argument, which was explicitly declared as inOut or outOnly. The compiler handles this correct, but of course, the output value is lost. From our point of view, such code is...
11 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

ZOWE RSE CLI should implement the local encoding option

Zowe CLI does have an option for local encoding, while RSE CLI isn't yet adopting it. I think it will be usefull to avoid the pre-encoding before uploading Cobol sources from a host to the Mainframe.
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Missing JCL checker

Genereal request for access to a JCL check tool/routine in RDz.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Delivered

Identify the Maintenance Point(s) of a CICSPLEX in the Job Log of a CMAS

Many Times when Trying to locate the Maintenance Point of a CICSplex I would navigate the Pages of the CPSM Web User Interface. It would be nice to externalize/identify the Maintenance Point in the Job Log of the CMAs. Automation Packages can then...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered