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Disallow edit/save of PDSE generated members

Add a site-wide option to not allow users to save changes to a non-zero PDSE generation (-1, -2, etc.). Also be able to restrict the SAVE NOGEN option. We need to secure these options and not allow users to change the options. Ideally these option...
about 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

Prevent CICS third stage initialization from completing until all JVMs either become enabled or produce an error

We have startup transactions that are loaded after the "Control is Given" message and these transactions require specific JVMs to be enabled or they will fail. We need the JVMs to be initialized and enabled prior to the Third Stage Initialization ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Improve positionning in -DR of a DBB

With -XB of a segment, when typing PF10 of the line, we arrivedirectly on the good line of the -DR of BlocBase.In RPP, this function does not exist so, in some cases (large Database block description), it is very difficult to get positioned on the...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

IMS Catalog Library Builder Utility DFS3LU00

With DFS3LU00 (with DBRSOR control statement) it is possible to create macro statements for DBD definitions except for GSAM. Expand utility to create GSAM macro statements too.
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

Accessing TCPIP-Network monitoring data from e3270UI

A complete view of the mainframe TCPIP-Network can only be realized by using two different agents: OMEGAMON XE FOR MAINFRAME NETWORKS NETVIEW ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT AGENT The Netview Enterprise Management Agent provides for example data for the int...
over 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Request For Enhancement

Hi Developer,Modify the HSISUDEL job/program to add an option that would allow us to retain Usage Log records when HSISUDEL is run.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Delivered

DB2 SAR uri override

Currently within the properties file used to define an service for a DB2 REST service there is a hard coded uri value. The path in the uri value includes the schema. The SAR file is generated once and promoted across DEV, SIT UAT etcThis schema ca...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

CEMT Set WebService command with NEwcopy or PHasein option

I would have the possibility to run a rescan for only one Web Service after modifying his wsbind file without to have to discard and reinstall the webservice ressource. I guess the most appropriate is to have a CEMT Set Command with NEwcopy or PHa...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 13 Delivered

Occurrences of "false errors DFHAP1301".

Case TS008672927 has the details of the issue. A summary follows:There is an automation that cancels tasks that have reached established resource usage limits and, if they are accessing DB2, they suffer AD2R abend, however in some cases the DFHAP1...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

RPP - Assigned Text to instances of all entity types

Hi, We would like to be able to read assigned text to entity in RPP the same way we did in Pacbase. It's much more convenient than reference search in RPP. Almost all of our macro-structures, programs, screens, etc… have assigned text before migra...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Delivered