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Remote file not found - show hint message

I open a remote cobol file and add a bookmark for it.Then I close the editor. Now I delete the file on the mainframe.When I try to open the deleted file by double clicking on the bookmark, the following exception is thrown in the logfile.See bookm...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 5 Delivered

DBB API - Manage a return code for each MVSExec for a chaining sequence in an MVSJob

Hi, The MVSJob API allows you to chain MVSExec objects and execute them in sequence until an RC value exceeds the specified maxRC value. Sample from zAppbuild BMS.groovy: def rc = new MVSJob().executable(copyGen) .executable(compile) .executable(l...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

IMS Repository support for automatic export

Automatic export to a repository is not supported. We are requesting that IMS Repository provides automatic export capability currently available with DRD. We are dependent on the automatic export function at system checkpoint to trigger export fo...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 4 Delivered

Processes running in parallel run forever

We currently have 195 AD projects with cross applications. If I do a make build for a maximum of 25 projects in parallel, then it very often happens that the builds abort with the following error:"========================== =BATCH MAKE ERROR FILE=...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Delivered

Possibility to use "?" to add Member Mapping character by character

As it's possible on filters in MVS Files, we want the possibilty to add a member mapping in z/OS File System Mapping and filter character by character with "?" like for example "M??????" (mapping only for programs/copybooks on 7 characters beginin...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Allow multiple URIMaps pointing to same URI/URL

With the URIMap vs. URI changes introduced in CICS 4.x, the API now allows a CICS application to specify a particular URIMap with particular connection details to off-host web functions. However, likely for legacy support of URI specification (vs....
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Program Control Flow Export as PNG

There is only a way to export the program control flow graphic as *.svg which is a vector format, that can't be used by many third party applications (like MS Office, RTF, Notes, Printing, ...) and always needs to be converted for other use. Pleas...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

HACP EE Host Code page support for 1145 Spanish, 284 Spanish and 1140 Portuguese

This RFE applies to HACP EE.Add Code page support for Spanish 1145-S, Spanish 284-S and Portuguese 1140-PExample: Code point 7B should be represented using Code page ‘Spanish 284' with Ñ
about 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Delivered

RBD/EGL support for DB2 for z/OS XML columns

RBD/EGL doesn't support DB2 for z/OS XML column type. This represents a significant obstacle for EGL developers to integrate their appliactions with DB2 objects used by Websphere/java appliactions.
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

Componentization feature to define small AD projects from existing large AD projects

As Mainframe applications are often complex and monolithic, customers want to use AD to cut these large applications into smaller ones, to support their Mainframe applications transformation process. Circular layout of AD graphs is helpful to visu...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

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