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Validate BPXWDYN parms in DBB toolkit

I am receiving the following error when compiling a cobol module Caused by: com.ibm.dbb.build.BuildException: BGZTK0016E An error occurred running BPXWDYN command 'alloc dd(TMP00004) shr'. I know this is caused by a blank property value but I cann...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 5 Delivered

Providing capability within GUI to download/export Audit Log and Dataset Dashboard information to provide to auditors.

M&T Bank team shared that this would be helpful for them in showing the audit log information to auditors without requiring them to give access to EKMF Web directly. They mentioned that this capability was something they'd automatically expect...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Delivered

Possibility to disable (hide) "Manage schedules"

In our shop we use ZWS for the planned stop/start of subsystems. We do not use INGSCHED, nor want colleagues to use it. As they do not know INGSCHED, they do not use it. But with SMU the option is visual as one of the operational tasks and thus th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Delivered

CICS should never loop endlessly when gathering statistics and writing them out to SMF

Sometimes, CICS statistics collection goes awry and loops endlessly. When this happens, CICS writes statistics to SMF for the same group of resources over and over in a never-ending loop. This causes CICS to become unusable and to have to be cance...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Lift or remove limits of INLIST built-in function

The INLIST built-in function is limited to 63 values (64 arguments), please either lift that up to at least 127 values (128 arguments) or remove the limitation. That background is, that based on the new MAXRUNONIF compiler option of version 6.1, w...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

String search does not work for special characters like single quote (and some other)

When trying to search for string f.e. PROGRAM search works fine. However if we would like to do search for 'PROGRAM' string search does not give any result. The same thing is when using regex search [\x27]PROGRAM[\x27]. This is important as someti...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Delivered

Module names missing in FA eclipse GUI

In the old FA ISPF user interface “6. Storage Areas” the storage areas are listed as “Event nn Program xxxxxxx Data” and you can very easy investigate storage areas for a specific module. In the FA eclipse GUI “Event details” are they listed as “E...
over 5 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

enable use of the IBM API Connect for outbound apis.

When defining outbound api configurations in zOS Connect as apiRequestors it is sometimes necessary to configure custom http-headers to be applied to the outbound api call. For example the "x-ibm-client-id" when targeting an api on IBM API Connect...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

FIXCAT for easy Maintenance of PDTOOLS

With z/OSMF it is quite easy to check the own software configuration against a FIXCAT-List, for example:Are all available z/OS 2.1 PDSE-PTFs are applied So it would be fine to get a FIXCAT Entry for checking against the latest PDTools PTFs. Not on...
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

Amend DELAY API to be aware if it is cancelled.

When a CICS DELAY is issued with a request ID, the issuing application has no idea whether it waited for the full duration specified on the DELAY or if it was woken up early due to another task CANCELing the request ID. Would it be possible for CI...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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