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Multiple places for CodePage-Configuration in RDz

When configuring a new installation of RDz, you have to change the codepage for the host-connection three times (but only for non-us-codepages):1) In View "Remote Systems",right klick on connection, "Properties",choose "Host" on left side, Default...
over 10 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Not under consideration

ICON TM RA implement auto affinity for IMS Sync Callout Response

The docs say, that the IMS Callout Response needs to be sent to the originating IMS. It is very difficult to ensure this with Dynamic VIPA and 4 shared queues Members.Customer requests, that HWSJAVA0 IMS Connect exit sends the originating Datastor...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

In IBM Enterprise PL/I for z/OS encrypt and decrypt function/possibilty

Customer wants to store, in an PLI/CICS environment, an SSO Token in an dataspace/storage for Rest calls and they want for security reasons encrypt the stored Token! And afterward decrypt it!
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

RDz : Customizing Host Connection Emulator

Some users ask us to be able of changing screen parameters like font/size/colors and adding the ruler on the cursor in the "Host Connection Emulator" as it exists in PCOM (CTRL + Home for the hotkey for the last one cf. attached files for the para...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Need IDz Web service custom converter to support array truncation

CICS Web service assistant DFHLS2WS has this new option TRUNCATE-NULL-ARRAYS. IDz supports it too but only for CICS bottom-up Web service projects with interpretive XML conversion type.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

Default Outline Filter when editing source files

When editing a PL1 (or any other source) file, you can define a filter for the content of the outline view. But these filters are only stored per program, you have to define it separately for every program.It should be possible to store the filter...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Allow DFHDPLOY to discretely use BAS or CSD based on the request

When requesting a CICS BUNDLE DEPLOY or UNDEPLOY via Urban Code Deploy, the DFHDPLOY step that is executed should only access CSD or BAS as specified in the Urban Code Deploy step. Current behavior is that when we try to DEPLOY a BUNDLE to CSD, DF...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

zD&T utility to copy data from zD&T file to real z/OS volume

zD&T had a handy facility hckd2ckd to migrate data from real z/os volume to zPDT linux file. Our clients had a requirement to copy data from zPDT linux file to real z/os volume.
about 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

List of control card members (utilities) that have both: the string in and a list of all the jobs calling the utilities

Customer is looking for enhancement in impact analysis process. For example, all jobs that use one or more “UTL's” that have a particular string in them. These “UTL's” may be called directly from the job, but more likely they are called by a PROC ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Windows Powershell Script to split source files into COBOL src/COPYBOOKS/ directories etc

We need a powershell script, so it will work in windows that utilizes the existing RTCz source code analyzer (java: com.ibm.dmh.scan.classify.jar), to split up a directory of various types of IBM Mainframe Source files into COBOL SRC, COBOL COPYBO...
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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