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JSON PARSE error handling offset needed

Cobol Developer coding the JSON parsing and associated Error Handling For JSON PARSE statement, when a condition occurs (JSON-CODE > 0 or JSON-STATUS > 0) then expose the offset where the condition occurred. Make the offset available to the ...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Rescheduling limitation of IMS deadlocked transactions

When an IMS transaction has a deadlock, it abends with an abend code U0777. The input message is placed back at the top of the message queue and the program is reschedulled. If the deadlock situation is repeated, the input message can get requeued...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to obtain ODO counter with the JSON PARSE statement

It would be really useful to us to be able to parse dynamic JSON arrays into ODO COBOL tables, with the JSON PARSE statement giving us the number of actual occurrences filled. Ideally by automatically update the ODO counter. It would also be very ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Debug: Monitor expression support for multiline statements

Currently you can only monitor expressions (COBOL), that are in one single line. Please allow the debugger in Eclipse to monitor expressions on multi-line statements as well. For more information please have a look at the case TS005731864
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

z/OS Connect EE summary earliest record attribute

Display date & time of the earliest detail record (API Request) on a Summary row in Enhanced 3270UI.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to parameter specific TimeOut by API

Now, ZCEE provides a asyncRequestTimeout parameter which allows to limit the request time for all the API in the server. However, it would be useful to be able to manage exception on an API basis.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

To Dsiplay the "Correct Usage" of an Error when clicked on an Error after doing Softwat Analyzer in IDZ

Like in SonarQube, if you click on an error, it will display the non-compliance and compliance usage, based on this the developer will know how to correct/fix the error / issue in the code. So the expectation is the same in IDZ S/A as well.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

API to Return RACF Custom Fields

In addition to the RFE ID: 82049 for RACF. Capability similar to the EXEC CICS ADDRESS ACEE API to view a signed on user's additional RACF details from the segments that are defined to that Userid most specially the RACF Custom Fields that are def...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Ship zAPM Connect Distributed Gateway binaries for customers to build images on top of customer-supplied base OS image

Usage of third-party pre-built images can have security or compliance issues in some enterprise customers. Company build pipelines can be mandatory, particularly where security guardrails built into CI/CD processes ensure vulnerability and end-of-...
7 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Increase resiliency of IBM zAPM Connect runtimes in shared Kubernetes environments

In shared Kubernetes environments (clusters hosting multiple application workloads), green zones for node restarts can frequently be continuous or extensive, not tied to a specific application. Any node may restart at any point for maintenance or ...
7 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration