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Provide a new user exit to fully support overriding IBM dump content

User exit DOT allows users to add or remove SMDT items from dumps but:1) it cannot be used to change the content of IBM dumps that are SYSDUMP=NO (e.g. opr-4)2) overrides to content set in DOT are not always displayed by ZIDOT DISPLAY STORAGE. Thi...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

CICS Channel and Conatiner - Managing High number of Containers

Customer is developing a solution that require a very high number of CICS containers stored into a single channel. These data are retrieved from a DB2 table and send back to a WAS Java program running on z/OS through CTG. The developers consider t...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Host On-Demand font to fill 16:9 ratio screen

With the current fonts and the prevalence of large 16:9 aspect ratio screens, e.g. 23?, a significant amount of the screen is wasted when the window is maximized. We would like an enhancement to add additional font sizes to more completely fill th...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered

WRITEQ TS par NUMITEMS not supported

parameter NUMITEMS not support in WRITEQ TS.
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Delivered

validdate(..) shall support more formats

This is a followup of RFE 90939. I kindly ask for additional formats support of validdate(<variable>, <format>). You asked for a list of formats, currently i only need the db2 timestamp format as i want to check a timestamp before i us...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Support for WSDL files with relative file path imports and includes

Support for WSDL files with relative file path imports and includes When files are copied from the EGLSource directory to the EGLbin directory, all file and folder names are lowercase. Imports and includes inside of a WSDL file are case sensitive ...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Delivered

Allow to search for all occurences of a string from regexp in current editor

Allow to search for all occurences from regexp in current editor The COBOL editor includes several possibilities to search for text. There is, for example, the Edit>Search/Replace... which provides a way to jump from one occurence of the search...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Access to TS in DTR User Exit (25)

In TXSerier DTR user exit I have access to userid, remid and tctua but I need to read and write TS Queues to store data for next routing. The user exit does not have the right to make EXEC CICS and therefore has no access to TS queues. I need acce...
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Delivered

File Manager plugin cache file size too small

Is it possible to increase the file size of the cache from File Managerplugin above 500 ? ( client would like set it to 5000 )
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Enhance text filter function results display and add more include/exclude logic in filter.

Currently the text filter function results show the first line of each pds member where the text is found. We need to see all lines where the text is found.Also need to add more filtering logic to search for an additional included string and exclu...
over 8 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered