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RPP - Using a data element is difficult in RPP

Using a data element is difficult with RPP.Whenever a data element (?E? entity) should be called (creation segment, setting macrostructure, report creation (?-CE?) ...) with RPP it is mandatory to use a combo box with all elements of your local wo...
about 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 7 Delivered

RPP - settings and comments with the same color in a macrostructure

Comments appear in pale green in the code macrostructures.Parameters lines appear with the same green. A color difference will significantly improve reading of a macrostructure. We did not find any parameter in the SDP to do it.
about 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Access to URIMAP ID in converter program

When developing software that uses CICS Web Support, I needed access the URIMAP ID in the converter, and later on in the application program, for the URIMAP that fired the web request. The analyzer does have that information but it is not passed t...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Access to an existing CICS document from a java program using JCICS

I want to be able to pass a CICS DOCUMENT, created in a COBOL program, to a java program by its document token and have the java program work with that existing document with the JCICS api. However, I have not been able to find a way to use an exi...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

RPP V8.5 - Copy / Paste not available in entity models

With PACBASE (in fact with 3270 emulator) it is possible to do COPY / PASTE from a ?segment? (?S? entity) in particular with ?-LAL ? who indicates the position and the length of the data. This is very useful for documenting a technical text, or a ...
about 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 7 Delivered

Add User Id parameter to debug display device in DTCN

User #1 created a profile sending tasks for debugging at terminal X, started debugging, and went to lunch without inactivating their profile. User #2 logged on, and was assigned terminal X. User #3 logged on, and ran a task matching the profile. U...
about 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

ZNKEY OSABUFF enhancement

The customer Travelport is asking that the znkey OSAbuff display detail the number of buffer that were used from 31 to 64. Currently the display is only detailing inuse buffers for 0-31 . In would also be nice to have a indication of how many time...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 5 Delivered

DFH0IPCC change to add USERAUTH

The migration utility DFH0IPCC that converts the connection/session definitions to IPIC IPCONN definitions does not created a card for the USERAUTH parameter in the IPCONN define, created from the ATTACHSEC parameter in the connection definition.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Automatic Resource Prefixing if repetitive calls from same location

We would like CICS/IA to automatically compress (aggregate) resource names after more than x unique names coming from a single location in a program. This will work siimilarly to and in conjunction with the current CIUPFXTB technique, but instead
about 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Allow MQ client on TPF to issue a get with wait to a remote server without causing an ECB to be suspended on TPF waiting for

Currently when an ECB on TPF uses the MQ client to get a message from a queue on a remote server the ECB is suspended if there are no messages on the queue to give back to the application. If there are a large number of queues that are being servi...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered