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IMS DB access thru z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition (zCEE)

Provide direct IMS DB access thru z/OS Connect via REST/JSON APIs.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Removal of the limitation of predecessor in the current plan

On complex network (our production system 'UPLEX1? run mother than 300000 operation/day)the limitation of predecessor to 1000 may cause some operation to be started too early and to fails.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered

Fault Analyzer provides COBOL specific help without matching source

When an event is for an IBM COBOL for z/OS v4 or earlier program without matching source, Fault Analyzer provides COBOL specific help: - A link to the Task Global Table (TGT)- Links to working storage BLW cells- Links to linkage section BLL cels S...
over 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

mtmmGDPS Support for MTMM Dual leg + GM With LCP

For Barclays to take advantage of logical corruption protection we would need GDPS to support to include Global Mirror into a GDPS Metro Dual leg environment. Currently this is not a GDPS supported configuration. We would then use the Global Mirro...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 8 Delivered

DBB - add documentation on how to remote debug java code in eclipse/IDZ

We need a way to remote debug Groovy applications so we can more quickly develop a GIT pipeline. Working with Dennis Behm he pointed out some documentation he had. Please publish this document so the community can benefit from this feature.
almost 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

Update HOD supported ciphers to match industry standards

The Terminal Emulator does not support the current industry standard ciphers. We are requesting that the following ciphers be added to the list of supported ciphers for the Terminal Emulator: #Use only fips certified ciphersCiphers aes128-ctr,aes1...
about 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

Flag uninitialized but used Variables

The compiler should flag Fields, which are used, but not initialized
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Delivered

vdisk as swapdisk (z/VM)

align with IBM z/VM recommendation to use vdisk as swapdisk for better performance.
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

Add option to not monitor for recalling and migrating datasets

When recalling or migrating datasets do not monitor until the completion of the action. Make it a fire and forget action. The recalling/migrating message dominates any other message. I will refresh the MVS Files filter myself to check for the comp...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Improve JCL Editor functionality for JES Show JCL

When using the Show JCL function, the JCL Editor can't hyperlink to data sets, members or procs. We have to ?Save As? to a JCL PDS then open it there to be able to use this functionality. This is a big headache/limitation.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered