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Improved functions for LABEL Breakpoints for Debug Tool

This request is primarily for Enterprise COBOL, but applies to all the languages supported by Debug Tool. It initiated from the Common Wealth of Pennsylvania. Label breakpoints need to be presented to the user the same as statement breakpoints. Th...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Occurrences of "false errors DFHAP1301".

Case TS008672927 has the details of the issue. A summary follows:There is an automation that cancels tasks that have reached established resource usage limits and, if they are accessing DB2, they suffer AD2R abend, however in some cases the DFHAP1...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Requesting ability to locate fields by name when creating/modifying Templates

I work with users on how to effectively use our mainframe tools. We have a number of large data structures here - the one in a case presented to me has over 700 fields. Setting up a template for a large structure can be cumbersome. In the host pro...
almost 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

MAT TRACE to indicate ACTION items

When running MAT TRACE, the BNH370I message is issued with disposition FAIL or PASS. It uses PASS when an evaluation item is matched, and for any actions taken. This can make it hard to determine the actions. I would like to see a disposition valu...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Delivered

Send DS8K health status info to the TPF console

To help improve the operator’s awareness of conditions within the DS8K DASD control unit on production systems, we would like to take the health information that the DS8K is already collecting and send it to the TPF console.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide back-end data in Interceptor

provide back-end data like application (CICS, IMS, DB2) system, transaction/program for invoked services through the Interceptor mechanism
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

SMPE usermod for Hourglass

The Hourglass product needs to zap the z/OS nucleus (IEANUC01) CSECT IEATSTCK in order to fully function. This is currently done with a zap and is a nuisance since the zap is done without SMPE support. This is problematic if further service is app...
almost 8 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Delivered

Option to Chain Chase both Prime/Dupe Copies of records in a Duplex environment

New functionality to force Recoup to chain chase both prime/dupe copies of records during Phase 1 and do a comparison of record header content to flag inconsistencies.
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Allow header fields to be moved to response fields

We want to be able to move a correlation id received as an http header into the error schema.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Permit the use of % (Generical) in CP_BUSINESS_APPL Lookup table columns

It is not possible the use of % in CP_BUSINESS_APPL Lookup table columns. This is causing an error in the update of CP_CPU_WKLDA_T table, once the column "BUSINESS_APPL" in CP_CPU_WKLD_T table is updated by the code: W_BUS = VALUE(LOOKUP BUSINESS_...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Delivered

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