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Add &SCOMPLEX to syset to support conditional assembly based on complex

Customers may support multiple TPF complexes that each use the same CPU ids. Different complexes may have different requirements for e.g. DBDEFs. We need a way to support conditional assembly based on the complex name. The CONFIG sip macro takes a...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

FPSI Indexing Suspension Security Capability

This addresses the FPSI (Fast Path Secondary Indexing) capability that arrived with IMS V12. Currently, FPSI functionality can be deliberately suspended for BMP processes by specifying a //DFSCTL DD card. This is something that can be done by any ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Delivered

Eliminate tape drive mounted requirement for zTPF to IPL

Eliminate tape mounted requirement for IPL to norm state
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Allow PIV/CAC support with TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2

When TLSv1.1 and 1.2 are enabled in HOD via JSSE the ability to use PIV/CAC cards is removed as is use of the windows keystore (MSCAPI). We need to have the ability to use PIV/CAC (client certificates) and the MS keystore when requesting TLSv1.1 a...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered

recycle of the HTTP client daemon

Customer is requesting automatic recycle of the HTTP client daemon as the result of a system activation number change.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Cobol V6 - add "WITH ENCODING" option on JSON GENERATE statment

In new Enterprise Cobol V6, statment "JSON GENERATE" produce only UTF-8 or UTF-16 document, depending on PICTURE clause of receiving data. Using UTF-8 / UTF-16 values on z/OS EBCDIC system is not very easy nor usual (and not human readable on EBCD...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

Make the return code for the job available to File Manager prior to exiting the program

In the *EOFPROC part of a File Manager function, make the return code available prior to exiting the job. A user would be able to code If RC = 4 then SETRC(8). It may be beneficial to maintain a return code for the function, and one for the job st...
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

make macro ALPHA baseless

To assist in baseless programming the customer is asking that macro ALPHA be made baseless.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Prevent mutually exclusive predicates in Event Specification

The Explorer tooling allows CICS Event Specifications to use mutually-exclusive predicates as filters, creating a specification that will never fire. This should be updated in the Explorer to prevent such scenarios (or CICS enhanced to prevent/fai...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

RDz DB2 10/11 support of Timestamp precision

RDz's COBOL Editor does not know the DB2 10/11 syntaks for DCLGEN constructs for Timestamp with precision. DB2 10 introduced TIMESTAMP with the precision from 0 - 12, where the default is 6. The COBOL editor report errors when precision is declare...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

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