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CICS PA Historical Database (HDB) needs to provide support for data from multiple releases of CICS TS

CICS PA Historical Database (HDB) needs to provide support for data from multiple releases of CICS TS
over 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

ABO supporting EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND

Most of Brazilian z Systems customers use EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND command, ABO is not supporting this kind of command yet.
over 8 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 2 Delivered

ECB Trace view in the TPF Toolkit Debugger usability

The ECB Trace view in the TPF Toolkit Debugger redraws on every step and sets the focus to the top line. However, the most recently added line and the line that is most likely of interest is the bottom line. As such the user must scroll to the bot...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

Add TCPIPServer vs. URIMap as Message Insert in DFHSO0123

DFHSO0123 statically notes "TCPIPService" in its text and provides Message Insert 8 identifying the named TCPIPService or "*" if a URI or URIMap was used (i.e., outbound call). The text "TCPIPService" should be a Message Insert with either TCPIPSe...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Rich UI - Global way to set UID and PWD on all service calls

Would like to have global way to set UID and PWD on all service calls.In other words, currently, we have to use serviceLib.setHTTPBasicAuthentication on each service call. Would like to set once for a session.All our services are in CICS, so UID a...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Services - global way to set UID and PWD in debugger

(Services) Would like to have global way to set UID and PWD in debugger (similar to how remote calls are done) Probably depending on: Rich UI - Global way to set UID and PWD on all service calls (88774)
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Delivered

Reduce scope of a text search to a particular type of code in COBOL editor

Currently, when the user searches for a text in the COBOL code, the search is done on the whole code, including code coming from macrostructures, code generated from the design, code generated from micro-patterns and specific user code. Often, the...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Check for inconsistency in the list of macrostructure calls

Currently, the user can create two identical calls of the same macrostructures in a program. This makes the two macrostructure calls to be ignored. This is error prone, because the user do not always see that two calls are identical. New controls ...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

Quick display of the reason a COBOL have to be regenerated

Currently, when a program needs to be regenerated because it is not in sync with design files, there is no quick way to understand which designs are responsible for the desynchronization. The user has to go in the Generation Manager View, look for...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

Support of SMF89 Enterprise PL/I for MLC (Monthly License Charge)

Enterprise PL/I for z/OS should write SMF89 records for MLC (Monthly License Charge)
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered