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Monitoring Configuration Manager - Change Generate so that the USS write is not mandatory

Z Monitor Configuration Manager Generate batch job does a mandatory USS write. USS write should not be mandatory for Configuration Manager Generate. Configuration Manager should have another option for the USS write, or provide the USS information...
about 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

Warning Message when using VLR(Standard) and FILE STATUS=4 COBOL V5

COBOL Version 5:If no File Description exists for the smallest and the largest Record, the file status is 04, as difference to COBOL Version 4.So for cleaning the programs, i like to set the VLR(standard) option.But then i want to get a warning (o...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

PDS SYNCRONISATION NEEDS TO SUPPORT MIXED SOURCE TYPES

Customer (Public Bank Berhad), running Application Discovery 5.1.0.5 has mixed source types in their PDSes, i.e. it contain various types of z/OS source files such as Cobol, Assembler within the same PDS. Currently, the PDS syncronisation cannot a...

Ability to securely transfer files into z/TPF

This RFE is for securely transferring files initiated from a remote platform into TPF. This will be an implementation of a Secure FTP server on TPF.
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

AD authetication and aauthorisation

Today the Analyze client does not authenticate when connecting to the AD services. Client rules says that user authentication should be done by means of SSO based on Kerberos or SAML. This same SSO credentials should also be used when accessing th...

more flexibility on RTC user build job name

The job cards for an RTC user build are taken from the preferences. It is possible to specify a fixed job name or to use the only available variable <JOBNAME>. The variable <JOBNAME> will resolve to &SYSUID;1 at runtime (with &...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Property Group Global Variables indicating the processing environment

Please provide a Global Variable in PropertyGroups to support differentiation between "Build a Test Case" in zUnit und "Remote Syntax Check". This is necassary in order to initialize different logic in the corresponding members of "Procedures and ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

The limit of CPLREC12 record

ZWS has CPLREC12 record in CP.The record is written all external successor ADs each operation of an CP occurrence in DP batch and MCP process.The record is only used to resolve external successor dependencies in MCP process. This record has up to ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

TLS Certificate Expiration Monitor

The TLS Certificate monitor allows a customer to be notified when a certificate is nearing expiration or has already expired. One possible implementation of this is whenever the z/TPF SSL code reads in a cert from file, it will issue a warning mes...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Display Disconnect time with VSHOW / DISCONNECTED

We need the disconnect time and date (or better minutes since disconnected) in the VSHOW / DISCONNECTED command Output in order to check, if the userid should be canceled with VCANCEL userid TERM. Before:KLUOP009 OP#0101 DISCONNECTED After:KLUOP00...
about 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered