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RDz V9 CLOSES ALL OPEN ARTIFACTS WHEN A TIME OUT OCCURS

In version 9.0, when you are performing analysis on programs, JCL, copybooks, etc. and a time out occurs, all artifacts are closed. In previous versions of RDz, a time out of the z/OS connection left the programs, copybooks, JCL and all tabs open....
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 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...
over 1 year ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

Control who will be proxy of proxies, in an environment where there are several sysplex (each one with his own proxy)

There is no way to control which Sysplex Proxy TEMS becomes (or can become) the PLEXVIEW proxy. It is done on a first arrive first serve basis. Every Sysplex proxy TEMS checks on a regular basis to see if there is a PLEXVIEW proxy. If there isn't,...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Delivered

Provide a redistributable JAR file for the IBMJZOS API in Java 11

In Java 7 & 8 the IBMJZOS API toolkit was shipped in the JAR file ibmjzos.jar and licensed for redistribution. The same function is required in Java 11. This enables other s/w components to easily embedd this file and also enables the usage of...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

Empty results form DB2 query should show column with no entries like previous data source explorer

If you do a query that returns no results there is no visual notification of that fact.
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Raise IMS/Connect 50 port limitation

Increase the IMS/Connect port limitation of 50.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Delivered

Enhance Display of Channel/Container Info in CICS Dumps

Currently FA displays Channel info in Level, Commareas, and Channels.This display is inconvenient when inspecting a dump with a lot of levels and with channels which contain a lot (sometimes hundreds) of containers.The display of one container con...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

Add support for 64-bit storage to EXEC CICS INQUIRE STORAGE

GETMAIN64 was added with CICS/TS 5.1, however the INQUIRE STORAGE command still only returns 4-byte address values, and has no option for HIGH DSA pools.This is a request to add a INQUIRY STORAGE64 command for high DSA pools, so developers can dia...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

BANK HAPOALIM LTD

The Customer developed user-written rules to be tested with Code Review and wish to run them all in a Batch process on the zSystem:They used the provided JCL proc AKGCR to run the code review.The job was successful but the elapsed time was long, a...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Enhance description on the number of occurrences

** Context **My customer consolidated ZWS controller from 20 to 1 for improving operability. With the consolidation, the number of occurrences in one CP became 20 times larger, specifically from 30,000 occurrences per CP to 600,000 occurrences in ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered