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Allow assignments with UNION if they are equal

Allow assignments with UNION if they are equal. Small Example:PLI003: PROC OPTIONS(MAIN); DCL 1 ST_01 UNION, 5 DATC CHAR(10), 5 DATB BIN FIXED(15); DCL 1 ST_02 LIKE ST_01; ST_02 = ST_01; END PLI003; IBM1669I Target in assignment is a UNION. or wit...
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Add REGEX built-in function to support regular expressions

We would like to have regular expressions available via a built-in function with the following syntax: rc = REGEX( index, length, pattern, string, [ , start ] [ , codepage ] ); The function sets the value for the <index> and <length> o...
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

zCEE Liberty should allow server.env file config

Tried to follow Liberty "best practices" for our zCEE implementation, to separate task ID from configuration file owning ID as a Security consideration. This is allowed through Liberty but not Liberty within zCEE. Other parms are working in the se...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

zCEE service should allow a variable or inherit a connection profile

When deploying a service from test to prod, we should not have to change anything inside of the service. We have to edit and change the connection profile to point to different connection profile. Can this be a variable, or inherit from some other...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Extend the JZOS ZFile class to include "unlocked" versions of read and locate for VSAM files

We've been prototyping and performance testing Java's ability to access VSAM record-oriented or Key Sequenced Data Sets (KSDS) using the ZFile class and now, our own home-grown functions based on the XL C/C++Run-Time Library – in particular, the l...
about 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Delivered

add support for system symbols to APA CS Extension

need support for system symbols to APA CS Extension
about 3 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

LPARNAME in SMF110 records

We would like to generate the Mobile Workload Pricing Report; we are using SMF110 with CICSPA.But in SMF110 records we only have the SMFID field and not the LPARname (that we can find in SMF89 records)We have no common fields between the SMF110 an...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Tracking the correlation id (trace-id) for monitoring in SMF Data

We have a need to track client requests and monitor the life of that request, alerting on exceptions. We would use SMF to do this but need an additional field (trace-id) to hold this id
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

zCEE

Need a RFE setup for security errors by listening to RACF ENF.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Add http OPTIONS support for resources

CICS currently supports the http OPTIONS method but only for the server itself where the path is an asterisk. Requesting http OPTIONS method support for resources.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

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