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Enhance CICS Events to allow computational data as a field type

CICS Events can be further enhanced to provider greater context and guidance around certain conditions. A field type other than field data passed from a system message, static text, or business data may be useful. Such data may be a concatenated s...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Add Threadsafety to IBM Fault Analyzer

The Fault Analyzer product has a couple programs that are definied as Quasirentrant in CICS. Of particular note is that the XEIIN exit examines every EXEC CICS statement, incurring overhead when activated. Making FA threadsafe, particularly around...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Segments missing information

When in Pacbase a name is assigned to a FILLER on the Call of Elements screen, that name (or label as it is called on RPP), it is lost. Refer to Use Case to see an example.
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Segment Schemas

A segment can have up to 10 schemas, which are defined under the Value/SFC column on the -CE lines screen.It is very difficult to identify what elements belong to a certain schema. If for example an element needs to be part of schema 4, then we ne...
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

[G2S]Avoir une documentation d?taill?e sur le m?canisme de sparse loading

Cr?er une documentation RPP/RTC d?crivant les r?gles de sparse loading en fonction de la nature des entit?s remont?es (ou descendues).
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Export wizard in plugin PDTOOLS V12

Hi Export a table in DB2 RDz does not work as in Z / os. when exporting the user is required to allocate the file before exporting while in Z / os we have a panel type definition file and calculation itself the file size.
over 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Support Data Table Filter in RDz Datasource Explorer

In the current RDz Datasource explorer, it not support Data Table filter such that user cannot select filtering criteria via a GUI. It is not convenience for a quick / simple data query.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Toolkit Trace Log analysis needs to count calls from CSO programs

The Toolkit Trace Log Analysis tab "Segments Entered" doesn't include enters issued from C programs, the current design appears to only count ENTRC macros recorded in the ECBs macro trace.Could the design be changed to include enters from CSO segm...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

Migration Code Structure of .cbl files

The .cbl files could use some whitespace or structure between major functions/subfunctions to improve readability.
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 6 Delivered

New System Event.......

Request for a new System Event: PROGRAMTo trigger an event whenever a program changes in status (ENA/DIS et c...)Today this function is availabla for FILE and TRAN, but it would be a great feature if this was also possible for PROGRAM.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

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