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z/os Connect to pass the terminal id or original ip address for securitu

z/OS Connect leaves the TERMID field of the RACROUTE VERIFY parm list blank. It should set it to the originating terminal name or IP Address.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Enterprise PL/I's LISTVIEW(SOURCE) Compile Option Support for taking code coverage in IDz

・Request for user interface improvement when conducting interactive debug using IBM Developer for z/OS Client In case of LISTVIEW(AFTERALL), debugging is done against source which include the output source text by PL/I preprocessorBecause our cust...
about 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Selection Criteria for Transaction Resource record

When I try to fix the AFCY abend (deadlock abend)，I have to figure out which file was locked when the deadlock happened and which task locked the file.Usually the task's response time must be long.It's a critical value that I can use to filter the...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Provide Execute command for WTO workstations

There's no way to start an operation on a WTO workstation if submit is deactivated. Other operations (CPU-jobs) could be started using the Execute command. So we need a similar solution for WTO operations.
about 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered

IZPCA: add SMF field QWSAIIPT on table KPM_DB2_SYSTEM_T

We use table KPM_DB2_SYSTEM_T to monitor DB2 System metrics (SMF100). This metric is useful to monitor DB2 I/O interrupt CPU usage. The field QWSAIIPT is also missing in the record definition (DRLRS100). We need a new column in the KPM_DB2_SYSTEM_...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Delivered

Confirmation pop-up for JES commands (HOLD, RELEASE, CANCEL and PURGE) passed on jobs not owned by the same USERID

Thankfully not often but we have some times users that CANCEL/PURGE jobs in mass in "Active Jobs" filter in JES and disconnect a lot of others users. For the need of "Show JCL" commands, we have left the parameter LIMIT_COMMANDS to "NOLIMIT" and t...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

Allow Java 7.1 in CICS TS 5.1

Allow CICS TS 5.1 to access Java 7.1_64.We installed CICS TS 5.1 in February, 2014We upgraded to Java 7.1_64 with our z/OS 2.1 upgrade in July, 2014.We do not currently use Java in CICS.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Option to only display the active sessions within Supersession

We have recently migrated from TPX to Supersession. When a user logs onto TPX they get a complete list of sessions, exactly as in Supersession. However it is possible for a user to override the display of sessions by entering a temporary override...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Extend JCLExec API to specify the buildFile

Today, when submitting a JCL with an inline JCL, the DBB build report is showing an entry the build report with the file as "undefined". It would be great, if the API could be extended with a new (optional) method like `buildFile(String)` to set t...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

Get rid of the priority macrostructures

To declare relative placements of blocks in screen programs, the user has to create special macrostructures that have priority over other macrostructures. The users consider ?priority macrostructures? as something hard to maintain, hard to underst...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

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