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Annotations about EIBCPOSN and other CICS variables should not appear on Rational Developer for System z 7.5

when a COBOL program is opened in Rational Developer for System z 7.5 annotations about EIBCPOSN and other CICS variables not being resolved appear. This is not good when customer has a lot of CICS programs. CICS variables are only resolved at lin...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Change Password functionality

RDz does not have the functionaly to change TSO password for the connected user before it expires. Change password functionality is required for the every mainframe logon mechanism. Identifying password expiry date.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Content Assist / blank after parenthesis

content assist does not work in a PL/I source when there is no space after a parenthesis. We received the following reply from IBM Software Support on 2008-07-08:I checked with the development team here and am told the this is the waythe Content A...
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Need to present aggregated accounting information

SCLM maintains accounting information about the members under SCLM control. Currently, on ISPF, a User can see the accounting data for multiple members all at once. With the SCLMDT, a user can only see accounting information for a single member at...
over 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Delivered

"Search" feature for SCLM DT

Currently, RDz [in the z/OS Projects Perspective on the RSE pane] supports a "search" feature when a filter returns a large number of entries. or the PDS has a very large number of members. A similar search capability is needed for the SCLM DT to ...
over 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Delivered

Auto Refresh feature for SCLM DT

Currently, filters do not refresh automatically. This is, a the least, an annoyance for users and -- I believe -- there is a requirement for auto-refresh on the z/OS Projects (RSE Filters) side. This capability should be added to the SCLM DT funct...
over 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Delivered

Filters should not be deleted switching between Modes in SCLMDT

Currently, SCLM DT supports two "modes" -- the mode for Developer and the mode for Explorer. Right now, when you switch between modes, the filters that you built in the first mode are DELETED. That makes no sense. While it is logical to assume tha...
over 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Delivered

We need more descriptive information regarding production runtime errors (using RDZ). This includes the location of errors (

We need more descriptive information regarding production runtime errors (using RDZ). This includes the location of errors (e.g. program name and line number) in addition to the nature of the problem. Working storage information would be helpful too.
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Delivered

ZTPLF allow assignment category

This eases the removal of numerous local mods we have regarding management of VTS tape categories. ZTPLF FILL and ZTPLF LOAD commands require a tape category to obtain a tape (in this case scratch tapes). I would these commands to optionally accep...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

CTG V9.3 support on RHEL V9

Hi Team, Currently we are using CTG V9.3 on Websphere Application server on RHEL V8. CTG is configured on Websphere Application server using ECI Resource Adpaters in local mode with IPIC protocol. We are planning to migrate OS from RHEL V8 to RHEL...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Delivered