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TIM support for Passpharse

Our customer has decided to change the lenght of TSO passwords. They have decided to go for passphrase (9-100 characters) instead of passwords(8 characters). Currently the TIM logon screen will not support passphrases. Also, the password field is ...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

New builtin IFTHENELSE

a new builtin IFTHENELSE(expr, truepart, falsepart) should evaluate the expr and returns the truepart or the falsepartthe returned datatype depends on the coded parts (e.g. bit, alphanumeric or numeric datatype) nested use of IFTHENELSE should be ...
about 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Provide ZFILE sort command

Provide a way to sort output from ZFILE commands. Many ported ZFILE commands do not have all options supported and the ability to sort on z/TPF the ZFILE output is essential in quickly finding details without having to use ZPAGE or cut/paste or wr...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Need EBCDIC code page conversion check in COBOL and PLI editor

When using local projects to develop COBOL or PLI then files are UTF8 encoded and it is possible to add characters that cannot be mapped later on to an EBCDIC code page. It will be good if a warning could be enabled to flag those characters.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Allow assignments with UNION if they are equal

Allow assignments with UNION if they are equal. Small Example:PLI003: PROC OPTIONS(MAIN); DCL 1 ST_01 UNION, 5 DATC CHAR(10), 5 DATB BIN FIXED(15); DCL 1 ST_02 LIKE ST_01; ST_02 = ST_01; END PLI003; IBM1669I Target in assignment is a UNION. or wit...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 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.
about 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.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Enhance z/OS Connect to fall back to basic authentication if certificate is for an unauthorized user

Currently it appears that if a program running in CICS does not specify to send a client certificate, CICS is then sending it's certificate to z/OS Connect. In our case this ID does not have invoke access to the API so the attempt fails at that po...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

LPARNAME in SMF110 records

We would like to generate the Mobile Workload Pricing Report; we are using SMF110 with CICSPA.But in SMF110 records we only have the SMFID field and not the LPARname (that we can find in SMF89 records)We have no common fields between the SMF110 an...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Add REGEX built-in function to support regular expressions

We would like to have regular expressions available via a built-in function with the following syntax: rc = REGEX( index, length, pattern, string, [ , start ] [ , codepage ] ); The function sets the value for the <index> and <length> o...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

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