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consumption-based chargeback

this requirement is about adding consumption based chargeback for zVM&KVM.chargeback is supposed a key feature to IaaS provider use case.Potential customers: Sogei, Citi; UHG; SSA, BCBS, Sicoob, etc.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

Need For New Option for RBD SQL Retrieve

Hello, We use RBD tool. In this tool, when we retrieve rows from DB2 table with SQL Retrieve module, we want to change table names to lowercase. There are three option over there but need for new option.
over 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Error message when no UserID provided to web service

CICS should generate an error message indicating when no user ID was provided on a SOAP web service call to make up for the lack of an ICH408I typically generated on a BASIC AUTHENTICATION ERROR. Useful information to add to the error message woul...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

z/TPF Reduced Cost Testing

Marriott, DL, TVPT, 2. Headline: Reduced Cost Testing 3. Lead Contact: mark.whitney@travelport.com 4. Date 2018-04-26 5. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Marriott, and Delta desire Reduced Cost Testing such that t...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

zUnit: Preprocessor integration support (for example SWT01 for Cobol)

We have a variety of Cobol programs implemented in SWT01. The scanner of zUnit cannot interpret the SWT01 statements and therefore the test case is aborted/failed already during the creation of the use case.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Delivered

zOSPT - Option to override the Domain and Tenant ENV variable

This request is to enhance the zOSPT product to accept the ZOSMF_DOMAIN and ZOSMF_TENANT ENV variables as overrides in the zOSPT Image "zosptfile" file and as additional parameter options for the "zospt run" command that can be submitted on the co...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 2 Delivered

Need a confirmation dialog before drag&drop of files between file systems

In the "Remote Systems" view, the user can easily drag-and-drop files and directories and PDS from one place to another. This includes drag-and-drop between various types of file systems. For example, the user can drag-and-drop a PDS into a Unix f...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Enhance GETSYSWORD - MSGCLASS/JESNODE/ACTINFO

Please add: MSGCLASSJESNODEACTINFO1ACTINFO2, etc.
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Allow for jobs with SCHID=0 to be used as input for CA7 Job Triggering Flow

We would like to be able to see the CA7 Job Triggering Flow for jobs that do not have any Schedule IDs, or trace back to jobs that do not have any Schedule IDs. There are a couple of conditions here that cause jobs to not have schedule ids defined...

AMODE(24) support in COBOL V5 Compiler

Our Shop requires that COBOL V5 compiler can support Statically linked calls to AMODE(24) programs. This is essential as we have several thousand programs that are link edited as AMODE(24) and are statically linked into COBOL Modules. Please refer...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered