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Add new IMBED directives to include a member with PROCESS directive(s)

Please add the new %IMBED directive to include a member with one or more PROCESS directive(s) with the following syntax - similar to INCLUDE but supporting one member only: %IMBED member; or %IMBED ddname(member); In addition, please:- Add the *IM...
over 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

CEDA EX LI(*) GR(ABCD) with CicsExplorer

CEDA EX LI(*) GR(ABCD) with CicsExplorer is not possible.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Omegamon z/OS - zIIP and IFL information

We would like to have the zIIP and IFL information on the Omegamon z/OS like this:- Percent of zIIP and IFL utilization (total and per LPAR- How many zIIP and IFL processors are active on system Z
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

(TPFUG) > 2042 TOD support - New APIs to assist in remediation strategies

The STCK/STCKF 8 byte format TOD will wrap in 2042. To help customers remediate issues in their code as early as possible and to avoid customers writing additional code that subsequently needs remediation, we would like IBM to provide new datatype...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Introduction of the SCOPE= parameter in SMU

We noticed the lack of a 'SCOPE=' parameter when stopping resources from the SMU environment. When using the TN3270 we're able to do a INGREQ with the 'SCOPE=CHILDREN' parameter which seems to be missing in the SMU Environment. We would like to se...
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Delivered

Date/Times before 1582

All Date/Time routines (BIF) should support Date/Times below 15. October 1582 (day one in Lilian).So, the values (Lilian format) have to support minus numbers (seconds and days).The low limit may be '0001-01-01' as in DB2. PL/I have to support the...
almost 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

IBM AD cannot delete information of resources from repositories,? while using Project update and Make.

In environments not using AD Connector for Mainframe, deletion of resources can not be reflected from Build Client's command line interface. However, since daily resource reflection is automatically performed during daily processing, functions tha...

Need more documentation on how to create the input directory for the wazideploy-package command

wazideploy-package command can package a local directory but the documentation does say how to create this directory and what content it should have. The documentation indicates to use the groovy sample PackageBuildOutputs.groovy to create a tar f...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Delivered

RULES: (NO)LAXSTMT

(NO)LAXSTMT as a suboption of RULES: There may be maximum 1 statement per source (not PP) line.
almost 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Plugins needed to generate deployable zOS Connect artifacts

We need a command line utility( java/batch) or preferably a Gradle plugin from IBM which can be used to generate the deployable artifacts on non Z/OS build system.For example:-A java/batch/Gradle plugin which can generate .SAR/.AAR and related dep...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered