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Source information file, needed for z/OS Debugger, Fault Analyzer and APA, incorporated in object (same as for COBOL)

We are working on an ADFz POC. So it would be eligible that also for PL/I the info necessary for z/OS Debugger, Fault Analyzer and Application Performance Analyzer, is incorporated in the object module and not in separate files :SYSDEBUG file used...
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

Update code to allow logs in /CandleHome/kqi/logs directory to be written with different permissions

By default, the logs being produced under /CandleHome/kqi/logs by the Java process started by the IBM Integration Bus monitoring agent are being written with permission bit 666. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 1 Delivered

Command to display how an APPLDEF is defined

Hello, Some days ago rised up the need to display the current definition of an APPLDEF and we asked it in a Case. It seems that it is not possible to give a command to display it. It would be very useful to have this command to monitorize it and d...
almost 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Ability to configure number of lines within a JCL being submitted through zOS Explorer

A very large JCL being submitted through zOS Explorers JMON interface, are using a large part of the ECSA for inter task communication between the RSED and JMON tasks.Ultimately leaving limited ECSA available for other system communications.It sho...
12 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

CMCI under JVMSERVER doesn't work with hardware certificates

It would be interesting if there was some form (a feature, a parameter of EYUCMCIJ.profile, ...) that would allow to choose the type of keyring that the WLP under which the CMCI runs will use, e.g. JCERACFKS (defautl), JCECARACFKS, JCEHYBRIDRACFKS.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

DBD change with ORF must update the IMS Catalog

When applications use Java or SQL to get information from an IMS database, they need the IMS Catalog to access the database. If ORF is not updating the IMS catalog during the ACBGEN step, then that means the DBA have to do an extra step for the da...

SA Operations REST server & z/OSMF coexistence

We want to run the SA Operations REST server on the same WLP instance as the z/OSMF but this is not possible since one requires the feature servlet-4.0 and the other the servlet-3.1, both incompatible and therefore not being able to coexist in the...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Delivered

Enhance Fault Analyzer analysis of CICS SVC dumps to include all types of registers in Kernel Error Data

CICS Kernel Error Data contains the Vector Registers at the time of the error. IPCS VERBX DFHPD### 'KE' provides all the following General Purpose RegistersAccess Registers Floating Point Registers Vector Registers However Fault Analyzer ISP...
almost 2 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

GDPS GUI automatically update GEODEF data set on both GDPS Control systems

GDPS GUI automatically updates GEODEF data set on both GDPS controlling systems whenever updates are made to the members.
over 4 years ago in GDPS 10 Delivered

Add support for the HTTP method PATCH in API requester

As of z/OS Connect EE v3.0.9, the API requester function only supports 6 HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD and OPTIONS. So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered