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SSRANGE with Warning Option

With RFE 78190 SSRANGE was enhanced for ZeroLength-Moves (SubOption ZLEN).The Problem of an ABEND is: The Test is immediately stopped.Would it be an option for giving a Message at Runtime (Not the default option),so after a whole test run we could...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

Compare two files from Remote Edit History view

When working with files in IDz it is often cumbersome to find and selecting different members in the Remote Systems view if the members are in different libraries. Users would like to have the option of comparing two files/members from the Remote ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 5 Delivered

Add micro-pattern API to enable copy-paste of user code or mp generated code

Actually, from RPP 9.6.x, copy-paste is disallowed by RPP in COBOL PDP editor for regions of code generated from a micro-pattern. In particular in case of COBOL Facet of RPP, it is necessay to enale copy-paste of code in the generated program * ei...
about 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Access to source for JZOS Toolkit Record Generation

I would like to request the publication or other availability of the current source for JZOS Toolkit Record Generation. Currently there are a number of issues that I would love to be able to correct or help correct for the benefit of other users. ...
over 8 years ago in Record Generator for Java 7 Delivered

COBOL should allow generation of a JSON document without a "top level parent name"

JSON documents are not required to have a "top level parent name". The Enterprise COBOL JSON PARSE feature has an option "NAME <name> IS OMITTED" that allows for parsing one of these so-called "anonymous" JSON objects. However, there is curr...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Implement a "run on server" like function in the CICS Explorer SDK for CICS Java development testing

Currently CICS Java testing from Eclipse is not an easy task. This is mostlly because testing requires a real CICS system. This implies connectivity, CICS deployment, CICS refresh and exposes the CICS complexity to Java developers. Also debugging ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 10 Delivered

Dark teama is not so useful with current color settings

Dark teama is not so useful with current color settings. If choosen then you have to do special adaptions to almost every area and editor to see the data correct or fully. Many users perfer the dark "look".
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

EKMF Web - Make Log available listing keys that have been activated but did not get installed

Make a log available listing key(s) that have been activated in EKMF Web but did not get installed in the CKDS. In such case, functionality needs to detect a key created, activated, but did not get installed. This key is then added to this log wit...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Delivered

Z/OS Connect to have option to allow mainframe clients response data to be returned without JSON conversion

Z/OS Connect to have an option to allow mainframe clients response body data to be returned to the calling program without going through JSON to copy code conversion. Currently there are two issues with how the JSON to copy code conversion is hand...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Add functionality to Customize Columns on CICS Resource View/Package View Panels for display

Adding the functionality to customize searchable columns on the CICS CM Panels will help users expand their search based on additional resource definition fields (Example: Description field). This will save time in filtering of resource definition...
10 months ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered