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Automatic login

When i run Eclipse, i wan't to launch the screen for loging to the host
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

New Keyboard function: JumpPrevious

in the Past, under windows Personal Communication was able to allow me to set a keyboard function not only for JumpNext but for JumpPrevious in HOD, only JumpNext available, but the other one (JumpPrevious) also would be good
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Delivered

Tape Pull not showing all e-vaulted DSS backup tapes on P340 system

DSS backup tapes are copied to remote site and then theoriginal copy is expired. Tape Pull is not showing tapesolder than yesterday. Notes from Rocket: After COPYCAT processing source volume isdeleted from IDS due to being scratch, but e-vault vol...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Delivered

Can policy function be defined to tasks?

The customer hopes the new policy function of CICS TS V5.2 helps them to monitor tasks in looping. But when they test this function, they found policy only could be defined to user programs, but can't be defined to tasks. They complained it is a h...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Host On-Demand macro field encryption in not compliant

When a Host On-Demand macro is recording input to a non-display 3270 field, it encrypts the data using a non-compliant algorithm.
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 4 Delivered

RDz - Better distinction between Delete and Remove in a MVS Subproject

This RFE is the result of an example of confusion in the use of MVS Subprojects.PDS'es and PDS-members can be added to a subproject. Developers can work with these items using the subproject.Once they are ready, the items can be removed from the s...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Delivered

In children filters, purge icon does not appears and the refresh of a purged job is not synchronized

In the Remote Systems view of RDz, when a job is purged in a parent filter, the Purge icon does not appears in all the different children filters that contains this in progress purged JES job.After the purge and a refresh of the parent filter, the...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

API mapping supports codepage convert for specific field

provide a function in api mapping to do codepage convert for specific fields.this function may require a way to stop the default codepage convert in zcee which is from utf8 to ebcdic. So user can only do codepage convert for specific fields.
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

'dis' tool support for #pragma comment data

This request concerns #pragma comment to add user and date info to object files. When an object file is generated directly from XLC, the strings are present in the object. If -S is used or if the object is disassembled using the 'dis' tool, then r...
over 8 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

Add symbolic variable &WW for cyclic datasets

Some customers include a week identifier for weekly SMF datasets. For example sys4.201632 where 2016 is the year and 32 is the week of the year. Using symbolics, the cyclic dataset name is sys4.&yyyy&ww.
over 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered