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zUnit default creates an unnecessary TestCase

When you generate a Test Case there is always a TEST1 tase case created. This may seem logical but in cases where a recording will be made from CICS or IMS or batch, the default test case is a hindrance as the import will always create it's own te...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Delivered

NOLAXNESTED behavior modification

The NOLAXNESTED compiler option should just prevent code in a proc and nested procs to be intermixed.The rule should be that the code in a proc forms a single 'block'. Case 1 : All nested procs AFTER the code => Acceptable a: proc; dcl (x,y,z) ...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

Cobol Formatter should Align "TO" Clauses

Cobol Developers spend lot of time and love by manuelly align all TO Statements within their sections. In our Opinion this Alginment improve the code quality enormously because variable names have often the same name and differs only by the prefix...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

Z/os Explorer BAS Enhancements

We have been using BAS (Business Application Services) frequently for resource definitions in our environments. Currently we use WUI for BAS Administration views and BATCHREP (Batched repository update requests). It would be nice to enhance Z/OS e...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

SMU - Add Set START Type function

It must be possible to set the START Type via SMU
almost 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Delivered

Develop CICS Certification

Please develop a CICS Certification program. I found that Senior level Management feels that Certification shows that the holder has a detailed understanding of the product. It also shows that the holder is comitted to continuing their CICS educat...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered

Ability to call unwrapped SOAP service

Document Literal unwrapped services are not supported by the EGL Client Interface wizard in RBD. See attached files for an example of a Document Literal unwrapped service.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Delivered

Add HTTP headers to SMF123 audit interceptor

Enhance the audit interceptor to allow the optional logging to SMF123 records of key-value pairs from the HTTP request and response headers
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Full qualified dataset names with definition by wildcard

Hi,in our development environment there are many liberty profile instances within cics (up to 50) and development has the possibility to delopy their applications in any liberty instance by their own via ucd. These applications write their own log...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

Dynamically adding file definition to CDP by cooperation with UCD

Hi,in our development environment there are many liberty profile instances within cics (up to 50) and development has the possibility to delopy their applications in any liberty instance by their own via ucd. These applications write their own log...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered