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Support Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays for the build toolkit for Top-Down service creation using JSON schemas

Add support for Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays for the build toolkit for Top-Down service creation using JSON schemas. When arrays are defined using API Toolkit the Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays options are both available, but w...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

That from GDPS panels it is possible to obtain the % free and/or filling of the Extent Pool of the defined ESE disks (FC1, X-DISK, GMFC)

It would be interesting to know at any time, from GDPS, how full the Extent Pools associated with ESE disks are. For example, if we are performing recovery simulations in Region B on FC1 disks, knowing how full we have said disks. In the event tha...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 4 Delivered

Better support for non unique names in COBOL

zUnit needs to support non-unique names in the Test Case Editor. Today it is partly supported. If you have a data structure like:01 A 02 B PIC x(10) 02 REDEFINES B 03 B PIC S9(4) BINARY 03 D PIC PIC X(8). 02 C PIC X. 02 C PIC X.The last occurrence...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Delivered

Get "Run as/Debug as" working in local projects.

Following a modern DevOps approach to software development, developers will not write code remotely anymore. The source code of projects, including Cobol, JCL, etc. will be located at git repositories. Then, developers will work with a local copy ...
11 months ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

2fa access to DWC or RestAPI

Actually, the user must identify himself with an userid/password. To enhance the security and make it easier for the lambda user, We have the need being able to use either 2FA or Certificate-based logons to the web-interface of Dynamic Workload Co...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Creating DB2 services using the API Toolkit

System: z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition 3.0Actor: DBA / Developer z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit can create a service for CICS® (access through the CICS service provider) or IMS™ by using the z/OS® Connect EE API toolkit. Description: z/OS Connect EE...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Enhance Comms Stub to segment Data for CICS API Requestor services

The currently CALL interface in the zos Communication Stub is too rudimentary in nature and fails to take into account large and complex data structures now prevalent in many common external API's. This constraint is a major blocker for effective ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Filter APA reports in order to limit the scope to the run-unit below a specified program called/linked within a CICS trnx

In order to associate the consumption analysis of selected CICS transactions to the business functionalities, it's mandatory for this customer to filter APA outputs selecting the subset of transactions where a given program is called/linked. The c...
over 3 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Omegamon subsystem and z/OS history handling - store data in one or more permanent datasets with restart-point (reduce time)

When the loading LPAR (RMF/DDS data) will be IPLed or the Omegamon subsystem (OMIOSUB) goes down its dataspace is lost and another OMIOSUB in the Sysplex loads the same volume of data again with high CP CPU% and long loading times. Therefore store...
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Delivered

JZOS Maven jars should throw exception for disabled functionality

IBM has made JZOS jars available on Maven Central for development and compilation. The functionality has been disabled in the Maven Central jars. Some or all disabled functions currently return invalid values e.g. null. If you inadvertently use th...
6 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 4 Delivered

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