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Requesting that FLATCOPY not shutdown due to individual flat file error

We believe that, in order for the product to be operationally functional, the handling of individual errors within flat files must be changed to not result in the termination of the FLATCOPY process. Today, when FLATCOPY terminates due to a proble...
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add new FA command to display dump data in ASCII

Fault Analyzer currently does not provide a command which allows switching dump data display between EBCDIC and ASCII. Currently, we need to set up a formatting exit. This is way too much trouble simply to have the data displayed in a different fo...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Exit point program RANA tests field-properties first and field-values second.

It's not possible to test just the values of 2 different fields/attributes; therefor this request to have the possibility to test just the value of any field with the value of any other field. Example testing with NEFDB2E_501 Q DB2EDEF_TRANSID NEF...
about 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Support symbolic substitution in ACTION definition message templates

We want to implement CPSM RTA and generate mails via system automation if a (CPU) limit of a transaction has been reached.<br />Message EYUPN0007W is read by automation and creates a mail to application responsibles.Unfortunately it is not p...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

rdz Audit Log support for uss files

the rdz stc on the host must log all access to USS Files as it is don now for MVS Datasets. This is in order to comply with the BAFIN regulations
about 11 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered

TPF Build Environment should be certified at RHEL Version 6.X

Citi infrastructure teams are moving z/Linux instances from RHEL 5.X to RHEL 6.X. This requirement is driven by corporate standards and forces the TPF Ssystems team to request certification of the RHEL 6.X environment for the z/TPF build environme...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

Add CODESET and TERRITORY to CICS IA CIUCNFG1 customization clist for CIUUDBC CREATE DATABASE on UDB

Updated the CICS IA Configuration clist CIUCNFG1 to add DB2 UDB variables CODESET and TERRITORY so the CIUUDBC sample member in SCIUSAMP createds the DB2 LUW database correctly instead of defaulting to TERRITORY UK. Please also add comments to the...
about 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

Command Flow Run limited to 1 userid in V5.1 (no wildcard allowed any more)

In CICS IA V3.2 it was possible to run command flows only depending on the transaction ID. With IA V5.1 now a single userid has to be specified under which the transactions run. Wildcards are not allowed any more http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docv...
about 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

RPP - Creation of COBOL COPYBOOK from a DATA AGGREGATE

Improved ergonomics: it would be nice to be able to generate a COPYBOOK directly from a RPP data aggregate (?S? entity) without passing by the DATA UNIT (?D? entity).
about 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

RPP ? Duplicating a program

Duplicating a program (P, O, OC, OS entity) with RPP involves the following steps:1) Duplication Model (copy / paste)2) Duplication of COBOL3) At the time of BUILD, seized properties (language definition) program It would be very convenient to be ...
about 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered