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selectivity apply apars

Selectivity apply apars for fixes has become more difficult in the z/TPF build process in the way libcpoco.a is build. The build of libcpoco.anow crosses more functional area so the drag of prereq apars becomes impossible to manage. It most cases ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

MIgration des verrous PACBASE dans RPP

Dans PACBASE, il y a un m?canisme de verrou des entit?s, dans RTC aussi, lors de la migration, recuperation des verrous dans RTC
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

CICS TX supports correlation id

There is an End to End transaction monitoring project ongoing (2015-June online) for Bank of China.(1st beta in 2015-Feb) Inside this project, a very important requirement is end-to-end instance trace from TX Series to CICS TS. It all depends on C...
over 10 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Delivered

Deliver IEV90 Alias for ASMA90 program with each z/OS Release

It seems to be useful that IBM delivers ASMA90 Loadmodule in SASMMOD1 with an alias of IEV90.
over 10 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Delivered

Refresh automatic Fault Analyzer Plugin PDTOOLS

The idea would be after the opening of a log file, have a way to automatically refresh the view or the history file, similar to how can be done with the JES monitor (see attached screen image).
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

ITOM needs to override jobname in archive attribute when it will create an invalid dataset name

z/OS now allows job names to begin with numerics as well as special characters not supported by z/OS dataset naming standards. When the ITOM archive attribute is constructed to include the job name an allocation error will occur. ITOM needs to det...
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 4 Delivered

ITOM needs to allow ACTIVITY DD to direct output to user designated output queue

ITOM uses an ACTIVITY DD in its startup to control the disposition of the ACTIVITY file. When the client attempts to redirect the output class from 'A' to 'X' it is ignored and continues to go to class A. This is problematic because Class A is a d...
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Delivered

"BKUPEND doesn't recognize outcode"

BKUPEND is not designed to consider outcodes when it is determining whether a file has a backup. To pursue an enhancement, please open an RFE and send us the RFE number. This will allow you to track the RFE online
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 2 Delivered

Protecting CPSM Api via SP & DFHEITBS

CICS is able to control usage of the CICS SPI by using the SP option on the translator and RACF protecting a specific module, DFHEITBS, that is loaded at translation time. Shlomo wanted the CPSM API to have this same functionality.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Nested WSDL in RDz

Customer needs to map, generate and deploy a callout WebService into IMS Soap Gateway.Usually he imports WSDL and COBOL copybook into RDz, do mapping, generate artefacts and finally deploy into soap gateway.Customer needs to use a WSDL that import...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 8 Delivered