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Add WebSphere Application Server 9 as an available server target runtime.

Add WebSphere Application Server 9 as an available server target runtime.
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Delivered

Monitoring enhancement for "Outboard Copy Inhibit" check

Enhance GDPS scripts to include steps to perform a check for "Outboard Copy Inhibit" condition for the volumes on the DS8000 as a health check prior to taking any copy services actions.
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

DFHWS2LS generation of more than 99 copybooks

The IBM documentation states: "REQMEM=valueSpecifies a 1- to 6-character prefix that DFHWS2LS uses to generate the names of the partitioned data set members [...] It generates the member name by appending a 2-digit number to the prefix". This rest...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Request CICS to retry "set TCPIPSERVICE open" command when startup

Please refer to the CASE and help to enhance the product that can have a function include a retry TCPIP service open solution. Meaning to say: if the CICS TOR try to open the TCPIPSERVICE fails, it can retry to open it in a while until it open suc...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Eclipse - the FA plug-in to to have variables with invalid values highlighted in the File/Linkage/Working-Storage section displays.

In Eclipse UI, there should be option to highlight the invalid values in the File/Linkage/Working-Storage section displays. This will help user to be able to focus on what should be investigate. Now it's only plain text and hard to find where shou...
almost 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Delivered

Eliminate need for SYSUT3 in IQIBUTIL JCL

Sometimes when running IQIBUTIL (IEBCOPY replacement) it will fail and require the coding of the SYSUT3 work dataset in order for the copy to complete. This is troublesome when it is only sometimes needed and jobs will sometimes work but then fail...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Extend JCLExec API to specify the buildFile

Today, when submitting a JCL with an inline JCL, the DBB build report is showing an entry the build report with the file as "undefined". It would be great, if the API could be extended with a new (optional) method like `buildFile(String)` to set t...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

ZD&T product extended dataset type support required

We will work on a fix for '0C4' which supposed to address on the extraction issue.Regarding on the restoring issue(during deployment), unfortunately we don't support restoring extended sequential data set for now. If this is critical to you, I'd s...
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

Finer grain client request API Security

The feature request that we'd like IBM to explore is to provide the capability for zOS to be able use claims in an ADFS token to determine whether or not a given request should be given access to an API or Service. At the current moment, Liberty i...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Move a Path parameter to multiple Service fields

Change the zCEE tooling UI to allow the ability to move a single Path field to multiple Service fields. We have found that we are able to edit the request.map as xml and add this support via this means. For example:<updates> <move> <...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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