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UTF-8 Support of local PLI and Cobol Compiler Frond Ends

For RDZ Cobol and PLI Tooling the local compiler frontends are used. In conjunction with RTC SCM repository + local projects - all files are encoded in UTF-8. UTF-8 is not a supported encoding for the local compiler frontends. When running the rdz...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Reduce Severity of error when macro call specifies option twice.

If an attempt is made to assemble assembler source that has a macro call with the same parameter specified twice the assembler will produce the following message: ** ASMA018S Duplicate keyword in macro call; last value is used - DFHSI/SUFFIX (In t...
over 11 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Delivered

EXEC CICS ASSIGN INPUTLENGTH()

Need to be able to get the length of terminal input string before receiving input: EXEC CICS ASSIGN INPUTLENGTH()
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Enhance FM to more intuitively address deletion of a GDG Base.

Enhance FM to more intuitively address deletion of a GDG Base. Ideally, if the GDG base has no associated datasets, the DEL request could generate a DELETE card without the scratch parameter, dropping the Scratch option altogether on the below pan...
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Delivered

TPFDF data collection integration

The TPFDF data collection statistics are only available on TPF. The inforation needs to be integrated into the normal TPF data collection flow and reports to allow easy access by TPF performance personal. Having to look at two different platforms ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 5 Delivered

FIND SVC count

For a TPFDF file count all FIND type SVC calls and record in the DBIFB. Also, provide a user exit at file close time to allow the user to collect this count and perform a user action.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 3 Delivered

System actions for CICS EP system event

Customer have great interest on system event support to monitor their CICS system and want to use EP support to do some system actions such as 'take a system dump', 'write CICS log', 'issue CICS system command', etc. Currently, there is no such su...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Need "filters" to "hold" when copying to spreadsheet AND summary of avg response times for transactions

More analysis functions needed in CICS PA PluginWe are trying to use CICS PA to look at average response times for a day and by the hour to assess performance.Currently, I have to copy the Transaction Summary to a spreadsheet and spend a number of...
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 1 Delivered

Allow bundling of web service assistants with company plugin for Eclipse

Please allow and provide license for bundling the following web assistant java jar files with Eclipse plugins that our company creates: /lib/wsdl/dfjwsdl.jar /lib/wsdl/xsd.jar /lib/wsdl/xsd.resources.jar /lib/wsdl/common.jar /lib/wsdl/common.resou...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

TCP header display truncated in IPTPRT output

SYN packets with multiple TCP options may exceed the apparent 28-byte limitation in the IPTPRT output. An example is: TCP HEADER A45A1C84 625B3E6E 00000000 A0024600 7F2F0000 02042300 0402080A The last 2-bytes indicate a "timestamp and exch of prev...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered