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Perform until exit

Now that COBOL finally has proper EXIT statements there should be a way to speciify an "infinite" loop, or rather a loop that has no explicit end condition but depends on the use of EXIT PERFORM (or EXIT PROGRAM, STOP RUN, GOBACK) to terminate the...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

zUnit Feature in IDz should be able to "expand and read" the Catalogued Procedure ("PROC") during "Record Data"

Currently, the Recording JCL in zUnit Feature (in IDz v15) requires that the application/program being tested is in a step in the JCL. Where the application/program is executed/invoked via a catalogued procedure ("PROC"), zUnit should be able to "...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes

The requirement is to monitor end-to-end access from requester to the databases. The audit information must be available in real time to a Security Information and Event Management system (QRadar). Monitoring is for both inbound and outbound acces...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

RFE for parse JWT token from ZCEE to Mainframe - In reference with Case # TS007365310

Requirement is, APIGEE server calls ZCEE(Zos Connect server) with JWT token and ZCEE validates token based on certificate provided by APIGEE team. We are trying to find out how this JWT Token can be decoded on ZCEE passed to mainframe CICS Channel...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Update NAF cache threshold dynamically

KLSOPTNF is an excellent tool for investigating which sessions are being started and by whom, and is a lot faster than using SMF data from tape for the NAF reporting tool. Recently we upgraded our largest Supersession instances to v310, and after ...
10 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Provide capability or a parm that the users of HFPMAIN0 TUNE function can use to specify the size of the work dataset

There were instances where processing a DEDB can get a B37 abend for the workfiles that the HFPMAIN0 TUNE utility uses in the course of its execution. This requires manually coding the DD cards which could be numerous depending on how many areas a...
over 1 year ago in IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS / Fast Path Advanced Tools 2 Delivered

PassTicket support in IMS Connect API for Java when it is used to submit IMS type-2 commands to OM

Our program provides API services for various z/OS subsystems through Zowe Single-Sign-On (SSO) service. Any API service that supports RACF PassTicket can join this SSO. Db2 for z/OS supports PassTicket-based user authentication. To make all IMS s...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Delivered

Double Click of Dataset in JCL

Within JCL, if I double-click on a dataset, only the qualifier I happen to click on is highlighted. This is due to the period being a delimiter.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered

EXCI should support CHANNEL and CONTAINER

Currently, EXCI only supports COMMAREA. This limits applications to 32kB of data. CHANNEL /CONTAINER allow to use more than this limit and help to structure the data.
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered

CDPz: support nonprintable characters for datatype 6 of SMF80DTA

System: Product Common Data Provider for z Systems Actor: User needing support for nonprintable characters for datatype 6 of SMF80DTA CDPz collects operational data from z/OS SMF, syslog, joblogs and other sources and sends to subcribers (analytic...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Delivered

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