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Sonar integration

Hello, Euro Information is involved in DevOps process and as a consequence needs to facilitate quality analysis directly when developers are coding their Cobol programs. Sonar is one of the leaders in this domain and we want to make it possible fo...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Adding more information to DFHSM0102 Storage Violation messages

When a storage violation occurs under CICS we get DFHSM0102 messages. For example:15.42.11 STC38008 *DFHSM0102 CICSXXXX A STORAGE VIOLATION (CODE X'0F0C') HAS BEEN DETECTED BY MODULE DFHSMAR.15.42.11 STC38008 +DFHME0116 CICSXXXX 643 643 (Module:DF...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Value-based item-supression for JSON GENERATE

We need an additional functionality for JSON GENERATE to suppress some items in the output document at runtime based on values of their source fields. This feature exists for XML GENERATE but not for JSON GENERATE.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

New datatype for long strings (> CHAR(32767))

For strings longer than CHAR(32767) we need a new datatype that can manage strings with length up to 2^31 Bytes. This datatype also should accept an attribut VARYING. Example:DCL field CHARLONG (200000) VARYING; -> In this case the storage allo...
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

Clean Code: Flag (more) unreferenced declarations.

Unused Named Constants, some BASED variables and maybe more declarations are not flagged in the Compilerlisting as UNREFERENCED. It is not relevant to the performance or other things at run-time, but to have a clean code (more maintainable), it wo...
about 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

Make new setting under IDz/RCE preferences for Remote Connection Emulator to be able to run from defined place instead of default AppData folder

During an exploration of new Remote Connection Emulator within iDz 15.0.5 we found that implementation of this solution is based on AppData folder, where if RCE is to be started, binary program of RCE executable (s3270 binary program) is getting l...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

OPtion to drive additional security check when using EXEC CICS SPOOLWRITE

Provide an option that will drive an additional security check when a task uses EC SPPOLWRITE to submit a job with USER= specified on the JOB card. We want the end user running that task to also require READ access to SURROGAT resource for that US...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

RSE Disconnect warning

Provide a warning message x minutes before disconnecting from Remote System, allow option to keep connection open.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 6 Delivered

Support Pack On dataset in IDz

Need support of "Pack On" dataset in RDz/IDz.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

IBMZSecurity provider should accept "safkeyring" for Java 11 a la Java 8

According to the IBM Java 11 migration guide the IBMZSecurity provider does not support "safkeyring" as was done in Java 8 but instead uses "safkeyringjce". I find this problematic as it requires changes to configuration parameters in third-party ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 7 Delivered

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