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Need Prime Dupe Compare Tool

We recently had a Prime/Dupe mismatch problem in our FOS production system. We were identifying problem the addresses as dumps surfaced, and/or had to find them manually.Because we only have 2 arrays on that system, we were finally able to determi...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

IDz missing Code Metrics functionality for PL/I

In RDz and IDz, the ability to run metrics on PL/I code is not available. This same functionality is available in COBOL, but not an option to identify dead code for PL/I code. We are needing this functionality to address our overall Mainframe needs.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Make CPU Resource Limiting effective for EXEC JCICS calls

We have some development going on with JAVA under CICS. When a transaction goes into a loop, RLCP ignores it. We have learned (see Case TS013710405) that RLCP only monitors EXEC CICS calls and not EXEC JCICS calls. Also, it ignores any programs th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Add function to the Terminate command that would allow the specification of a session ID. Example "T sessid"

This function would provide additional capability for clients that write scripts that interface with CL/SuperSession
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

JES Filter Strings - combine variable &USERID with a constant

The filter string for JES is already support the variable &USERID . Unfortunately I can not combine this variable with a constant. Example: my user id is FRED. If I now want to filter all jobs with the job name FREDX this does not work. &am...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Show date in transaction history in Classic interface.

In Omegamon/cics Classic, I use H.A to get to ________________ ZONDV VTM CICXTDA V550./I MVSB 07/26/23 9:46:05 > PF1 Help PF3 Back PF4 Main Menu PF7 Up PF8 Down PF11 Zoom > A-History Record View B-History Record Selection > C-Trace...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

To display the linkedit date in the filemanager foreground list

This function will be used to identify the recently modified CSECT in the load library. DoJ has requested the display to be similar to the current tool being used and to be able to sort on the linkedit date. The display can display the below attri...
over 1 year ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Improve COBOL 5 IPCS dump formatting

Using IPCS under COBOL 4.2 and earlier, it was relatively easy to locate a program's Working Storage. Under COBOL 5, this is a multi-step manual process. This request is to improve COBOL 5's IPCS dump formatting routine to make this easier for cus...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Add IBMCAC security provider to RDz/z/os Explorer client

This customer has had an ongoing need to be able to access certificates from the MS-CAPI keystore (also used for SmartCard support) when using Client Certificates authentication when connecting to RSE. IBM has a security provider with the name IBM...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Delivered

New attribute JSONTRIM should be available

use of the attribute JSONTRIM on structure or char variable causes the jsonPUT functions to trim all char Elements normally no trim happens, trailing spaces will be created for each char variable with fix lengthactually only the usage of char vary...
about 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered