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Add "Switch Old/New Resource" button to Compare Wizard in File Manager IDZ plugin

On the "Compare Wizard / Basic Settings" window one data-set name appears as the Old Resource and the second data-set name appears as the New Resource. In some cases the user may wish to switch between the 2 data-sets.Currently this can only be do...
about 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect batch archive reporting capability

Provide an automated capability to archive log stream data to long term storage. A batch process should be provided to report detail data from selected archives.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Delivered

Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes

The requirement is to monitor end-to-end access from requester to the databases. The audit information must be available in real time to a Security Information and Event Management system (QRadar). Monitoring is for both inbound and outbound acces...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

64 bit support in COBOL

We need 64 bit addressing capability with our COBOL application program executables.
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Allow use of System Symbols in CICS LIBRARY resource

Hello,we are implementing CICS LIBRARY resources in our CICS Systems.However we'd have appreciated being able to specify System Symbols in DSNames within the Library concatenation. As we currently use System Symbols to make products upgrades in ou...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Don't stop PGM on abend

A lot of our jobs are running IMSBATCH only for GSAM feature (only DB2 access)We are using GSAM for repositionning/restart capabilityAll these jobs are running with the same BMP which contains 10 input files (in01 to in10) and 20 output files (OUT...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Delivered

Perform until exit

Now that COBOL finally has proper EXIT statements there should be a way to speciify an "infinite" loop, or rather a loop that has no explicit end condition but depends on the use of EXIT PERFORM (or EXIT PROGRAM, STOP RUN, GOBACK) to terminate the...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Delivered

Add the monitoring screen for colored status in SMU

Our customer wants to the monitoring screen with SMU so that the status of the resource can be seen in color.But there is no way to display all colored status. Please add the function to identify as the colored fields or character for the all kind...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 2 Delivered

Host On Demand License manager logs rotate.

The License manager for Host On Demand, running on WAS Liberty generates a log file for the license usage. It's required to have functions for logrotate making the file be generated daily so that afterwards the daily files can be archived. <use...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

duplicate a program in any existing projects

Useful to duplicate a program in an easy way, without having to take multiple steps to achieve the same When duplicating a program, in the Design Entity Duplication wizzard, the Design Project list only shows the current project and those undernea...
about 1 year ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

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