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Enhancement to the INITCHECK option to find all possible “used without being initialized” fields.

Description:INITCHECK currently only reports definite “used without being initialized” fields. Requesting an enhancement to the INITCHECK option to additionally report all possible “used without being initialized” fields i.e. something like a new ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

FA Eclipse: Show active filters in Fault Entry List

Hello IBM, please add a header-item in the Fault Entry List, which shows, which filters are active (and maybe to disable/enable them). An idea, how this could be done very intuitive, can be seen in IBM's CICS Explorer.
almost 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Delivered

OPRMSG output to separate files

Customer Société Générale is using zD&T and OPRMSG to send commands to their z/OS system instances.However, output of each OPRMSG command is sent into a log file with all other output from MVS. Société Générale would like to have a separate fi...
about 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Delivered

Allow headless build of APIs

Currently it is only possible to build an API (the .aar) within the elcipse IDE and z/OS Connect API Toolkit. We need the capability to build the .aar file from a CI/CD Pipeline.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Improve error message for AC2249 system dump

The error message that comes out for system dump AC2249 is very non-descriptive. It has to do with synchpoints. It would be nice if the message told us which subsystem CICS was commnicating with when the synchpoint failed.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Improve Return Code Handling in JCL EXEC API

Today, the JCLExec API returns the maxRC as a String, which need to be split by a customer script again. See the ZUnitConfig.groovy in zAppBuild for example.Please enhance the API to extract the completion code as an Integer value to simplify scri...
almost 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

CICS API for MQM resources

CICS API / SPI to be able to view MQ resources being used; similar to CKQC; view the CKTI's, listener tasks and queues, in addition to the primary listener trigger queue, .CEMT I MQINI; Maybe MQINI START BROWSEGET NEXT MQINIMQINI END BROWSEto view...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Users need the capability to edit/customize CARMA Endevor "batch action" jobs prior to them being submitted.

I currently have 2 customers that have separate needs to modify RDz CARMA Endevor "batch action" jobs prior to them being submitted and running. In one case, customer needs to modify the jobcard because each user specifies different "accounting in...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 5 Delivered

Configuration Manager support for shared RTE with non SMP/E datasets

Both CICAT/ICAT and PARMGEN always have supported a shared runtime environment (RTE) with non-SMP/E datasets via RTE_TYPE "SHARING", RTE_SHARE "<dataset qualifier>" and RTE_X_HILEV_SHARING "<dataset hlq>". Currently Configuration Manag...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow customization/addition of columns in Observation List

I would like to see other columns from the Session profile in the observation list. Duration, #samples, CPU active samples, system ID. Both in the ISPF and Eclipse based GUI.
almost 10 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

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