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Add connection reference property to CICS service provider

At JPM all CICS services defined with the toolkit have connection reference “catalog”, I suppose because of the IBM example application. I cannot change that, all services are created with that dummy connection reference. If I had to change it dyn...
8 months ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Support Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays for the build toolkit for Top-Down service creation using JSON schemas

Add support for Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays for the build toolkit for Top-Down service creation using JSON schemas. When arrays are defined using API Toolkit the Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays options are both available, but w...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Add PDS member functionality to MVS Files filters

Allow the specification of a member name (fully qualified or wild carded) with a PDS name in an MVS Files filter. Include the member name with the dataset name when expanding the MVS Files filter and limit the member list to the member name (fully...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 23 Delivered

Excluding transactions from a policy

ICBC wants to use the policy to limit the DB2 requests, CPU time and storage, but they haven't adopt CICS cloud yet, then they need to use policy with region scope. And there are some transactions in their system need to long run, or need to acces...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Better support for non unique names in COBOL

zUnit needs to support non-unique names in the Test Case Editor. Today it is partly supported. If you have a data structure like:01 A 02 B PIC x(10) 02 REDEFINES B 03 B PIC S9(4) BINARY 03 D PIC PIC X(8). 02 C PIC X. 02 C PIC X.The last occurrence...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Delivered

Japanese CodePage IBM-1390/1399 support

For IDz V15 and earlier, we can use the Japanese code page IBM-1390/1399 with code conversion for text data when accessing resources on z/OS such as MVS datasets and Unix file systems from IDz client. But for IDz 16, we can not set IBM-1390/1399 f...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Update NAF cache threshold dynamically

KLSOPTNF is an excellent tool for investigating which sessions are being started and by whom, and is a lot faster than using SMF data from tape for the NAF reporting tool. Recently we upgraded our largest Supersession instances to v310, and after ...
5 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Filter APA reports in order to limit the scope to the run-unit below a specified program called/linked within a CICS trnx

In order to associate the consumption analysis of selected CICS transactions to the business functionalities, it's mandatory for this customer to filter APA outputs selecting the subset of transactions where a given program is called/linked. The c...
over 3 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

DBB JCLExec remove dependency to SDSF

When you want to use the JCLExec from a DBB groovy script you can only do this if you use SDSF. We use EJES instead of SDSF and get transaction dumps.
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Delivered

Enhance Comms Stub to segment Data for CICS API Requestor services

The currently CALL interface in the zos Communication Stub is too rudimentary in nature and fails to take into account large and complex data structures now prevalent in many common external API's. This constraint is a major blocker for effective ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered