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Program Control Flow

Program control flow has FROM HERE (to end of the program) and TO HERE (from the start of the program), however if there is an option to use “FROM HERE” “TO HERE” that would be a nice add on especially in large programs
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

vdisk as swapdisk (z/VM)

align with IBM z/VM recommendation to use vdisk as swapdisk for better performance.
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

Persist Search edit and re-run w/o making it a favorite.

When performing a Remote z/OS File Search one has to enter selection criteria into the 'Search string' (and possibly make other setting changes) before hitting <Enter> to start the search. The Remote z/OS Search view is opened upon the compl...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

CICS retry to connect TCPIP during startup automatically or as configured

After an IPL, TCP/IP and CICS are started. A CICS region fails to connect TCP/IP during this startup since TCP/IP is not completely initialized. This results in those resources unable to start.CICS should be able to handle this by restarting the c...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Show the length of a cobol variable or group

It would be good to find the size of a cobol working storage entry somewhere. For example in the tool tip. Or in the data elements table. Or in a new view. Sometimes it is neccessary to count the number of bytes used for a variable. This is easy f...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Binary read - Reading MVS DS with x'00'

z Open Automation Utilities provide functions for processing data sets. One of these functions is datasets.read(). Unfortunately datasets.read() stops reading after a x'00' occurs in the input data set. This RFE seeks to eliminate this restriction.
almost 3 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Delivered

Remote Edit History View does not support Browse

The Remote Edit History View has an "Open" command in the context menu. This means that the selected file is always locked. It would make sense to add a "Browse" to the context menu in the same way as the Remote Systems View, so that the file to b...
9 months ago in z/OS Explorer 2 Delivered

Cross Site Request Forgery

HATS can be used to create web based applications for legacy mainframe systems. However, applications built using HATS are susceptible to Cross Site Request Forgery attack.
over 9 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 5 Delivered

Full ARRAY and STRUCT support in IMS Database Service Provider

We require IMS Database Service Provider services to support complex segments with (non-nested) ARRAY fields with many instances and many values per instance (which may be of different data types), using un-flattened array representation, with aut...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Expand REXXIMS MAPDEF Packed Decimal function

Expand the Packed Decimal length that MAPDEF can handle from 6 to 10 bytes.
almost 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Delivered

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