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IMS database dependent segment layout mapping based on root segment value

To be able to access IMS database segment with different data structures using SQL you have to define mappings in your Catalog. The data structures of a segment typically depend on the segment length or a specific field value within this segment. ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 3 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE - provide a pass-through mapping option for HTTP headers

z/OS Connect EE - provide a pass-through mapping option for HTTP headers Provide for direct mapping of Request HTTP headers to Response HTTP headers, without any need for processing. In our environment, certain headers are used for global tagging ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Data Set Commander: Need FINDTEXT and MEMFIND in JCL

I have a PDSEv2 with 10,000 members plus concatenations of data sets with thousands of other members and want to scan everything without tying up my ISPF online session, plus and extract scanned results to a sequential dataset. FINDTEXT and MEMFIN...
over 7 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

FA - Add BEAR display for CICS Transaction Dump Analysis

CICS transaction abend analysis do not show the BEAR (Breaking Event Address Register). The BEAR is available in many of the CICS (i.e. DFHTACB, KERRD) and z/OS (SDWA, ESPIE, RTM) diagnostic control blocks. I am told that the BEAR is displayed for...
about 6 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

User defined messages in Fault Analyzer IDz/Eclipse plug-in

There is a way to use user defined message explanations, abend code explanations and program descriptions in FAN under ISPF environment. Our shop been using IDz for some time already, and more and more people moving into this tooling now. Therefor...
over 1 year ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

USER login message

Please add a message to the TLVLOG for each user that authenticates to SuperSession including a timestamp, the RACF USERID and the APPLID, e.g.2020.054 01:52:33.14 UID=V597696 logged on to CLSSRW1
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

New compile option to control the Instruction Overflow Mask for vector instructions (z15)

With ARCH(13) a new z15 facility is used to suppress decimal overflow exceptions on all vector-packed-decimal instructions. Although not common to COBOL we would like to receive 0CA-abends in COBOL applications in order to fix size errors.Once fix...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Have TOM leverage the z/OS parallel sysplex for high availability services

Resilient to infrastructure failure since an instance of TOM would run on all LPARs participating in highly available services
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Implement EXEC CICS EXTRACT STATISTICS POLICY SPI command

There is a new statistic record for policy that can be written to SMF using PERFORM STATISTICS RECORD POLICY, however there is no way to extract the statistics online. EXTRACT STATISTICS POLICY should be added to the SPI to match other statistics ...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Code Coverage Report and expanded source need to be consistent with encoding for other modules ( as SonarQube supports only o

Code Coverage Report and expanded source need to be consistent with all other modules as SonarQube supports only one encoding at time e.
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Delivered