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Add Vertical Bar to Toolkit 4.6 LPEX Editor

In TK 4.2 there is a vertical bar showing the continuation column when editing a .asm program. This is controlled from Preferences >> HLAsm Parser >> Margins (must select "Show Margins" and "Enable Margins"). TK 4.6 removes this featur...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Delivered

ZUnit - Result of testcase not correct

In case Zunit test is setup with in the expected result more records described the the program effectively returns the test fails and you receive a message ! However in case Zunit test is setup with in the expected result less records are describe...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Delivered

RSC: Don't mark replacement chars (e.g. ':') in literals in Copybooks as error

The real-time syntax checker marks statements in copybooks as error, when they contain replacement-markers like ":" (e.g. ":-SAWX-:") in literal definitions. Indeed, that would be no correct COBOL-coding, but those parts need to include incorrect ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Having the same call scheduling DSLIST on IDz (filters) than ISPF (3.4) to access PDS without catalog's right in RACF profile

After discussing with the RDz/IDz host development team, it appears that ISPF and IDz don't order DSLIST in the same way. For example with restricted user RACF profile, READ access to certain datasets but no access to the catalog, you can read the...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Support for OPORT as a key field for Summary report

A report of #Tasks at MVSID/Service Name/Tran/Remote IP/User/oport level will help us get details about the number of web requests coming via a Secured/Non-Secured CICS port along with the originating remote server. This information will be levera...
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Delivered

Historical data for "MSU Statistics" are not available in TOM/e3270

Historical data are not available in TOM/e3270 for METRIC KM5MSUCAP.
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Delivered

Make GMTRAN EXIT / DISCONNECT setting available to user transactions

CICS/TS 5.5 extended the System Initialisation parameter GMTRAN to include a second option which coudl have the values EXIT (the default) and DISCONNECT. When set to DISCONNECT the behaviour of the CICS supplied signon transactions CESN and CESL w...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

LPEX Open Declaration should be in browse mode

The LPEX editor's feature "open declaration" displays a COBOL variable in edit-mode. We want it to be displayed in browse-mode. The variable may be in a copybook.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Temporary storage cleanup in CF

During simultaneous Cics's startup, new pick have emerged due to delete of TS queue.Temporary storage cleanup in CF .So customer is asking these following requests: 1-Is it possible to somehow assign the cleaning to a single region or alternately ...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

More user roles & access control (2): customerized roles

customerized roles for more advanced mgmt
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered