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Allow multiple URIMaps pointing to same URI/URL

With the URIMap vs. URI changes introduced in CICS 4.x, the API now allows a CICS application to specify a particular URIMap with particular connection details to off-host web functions. However, likely for legacy support of URI specification (vs....
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Add new warning message to prevent modification of variables with INONLY or NONASGN

Please add a new warning message like “Variable *variable name* declared as *declaration attribute* is passed as *argument attribute* and could be modified.” to prevent modification of variables with INONLY or NONASGN in the following 3 cases: - I...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Enterprise COBOL V6R4 - IGZPROUT - Add "SERVICE" information in report

Hi, IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4 allows you to produce a report of all subroutines called by dynamic call. We would like the information introduced by the SERVICE compilation option to be included in the IGZPROUT report. This would meet one of our...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

RBD/EGL support for DB2 for z/OS XML columns

RBD/EGL doesn't support DB2 for z/OS XML column type. This represents a significant obstacle for EGL developers to integrate their appliactions with DB2 objects used by Websphere/java appliactions.
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

CL/SuperSession user login details

Based on PMR TS002573070We have been ask by security team to deliver more tracking information of logged on users to our systems. A message in syslog like user xx logged on to yy at t t IP XX - userid yy - Supersession APPLID tt -Terminal ip - aaa...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Possibility to use "?" to add Member Mapping character by character

As it's possible on filters in MVS Files, we want the possibilty to add a member mapping in z/OS File System Mapping and filter character by character with "?" like for example "M??????" (mapping only for programs/copybooks on 7 characters beginin...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Move the cursor to the end of pasted text in a field

Currently when pasting text into any field in PCOMM the cursor remains at the beginning of the field. We would like the ability to change this behavior to have the cursor automatically reposition to the end of the pasted text in the field (IE if w...
about 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Delivered

Customer requires all runtime metrics collection components, data, logs, etc to be fixed to a single time zone

This aligns the collected results, logs and etc to time frames that align with the other tools, processes, etc in the enterprise. This is a blocker to adoption of RTMC in production.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Adding support for STOP RESAPI server

When I issue the command "P RSEAPI" nothing happens. All the RSEAPI related tasks do not come down.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 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