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Provide an Outline view for JES output, similar to the Outline view for a COBOL program.

Similar to the Outline view of a COBOL program, add an Outline view of a JES output (entire job) that provides the ability to jump to the ‘next' or ‘previous' JES file or any other JES file within that job. This would be similar to the Prev/Next c...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

EQQAUDIT should include records if operation is manually hold

Manually HOLD option or NOP'ed are not logged properly or displayed correctly in the EQQAUDIT report IF change has been done by modify of the operation using 5.3 (M.3). Same issue if operation is updated using 5.2 and modify of the application is ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

be able to get channel DFHTRANSACTION in JCICS

in JCICS there is a Task.getTask().getChannel("DFHTRANSACTION"); in the doc it say The named Channel object if it exists, or null if it does not. The named channel will only be returned if it is the current channel, or if it was previously created...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

View KOBABOUT - display product subversions

Currently KOBABOUT shows product version only: CFG/FW.. V7.3.0 CICS.... V5.5.0 DB2..... V5.4.0 CICS/TG. V5.5.0 ITM/Z... V1.2.0 Java.... V5.5.0 MQ/CFG.. V7.3.0 MQ...... V7.5.0 z/OS.... V5.5.0 Int/Bus. V7.5.0 We would like to see subversions t...
about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

Identify the Maintenance Point(s) of a CICSPLEX in the Job Log of a CMAS

Many Times when Trying to locate the Maintenance Point of a CICSplex I would navigate the Pages of the CPSM Web User Interface. It would be nice to externalize/identify the Maintenance Point in the Job Log of the CMAs. Automation Packages can then...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Allow Multiple Search Strings

This is a request to enhance the IDz Remote z/OS File Search to allow the user to enter multiple search strings in the "Search string" field. While the field allows for wildcards and escape characters, there is not a way to enter multiple search s...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

CICS Liberty servers are unable to tolerate changing zFS mount points

Every CICS JVMserver region has to shut down when an lpar holding the HFS mount point is IPL'd and the mount point gets moved to another lpar. Having to shut down all these regions would defeat the purpose of a CICSPlex for high availability. whic...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

LIST Option causes issues with messages from COBOL 5.2 compiler

When compile parm LIST is used with the parm FLAG(I,I), compiler diagnostic messages that are supposed to be printed at the end of the source listing (page 327 Programming Guide SC14-7382-03) are in fact printing in the middle of the output ahead ...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Automatically Determine Host User ID When Connecting to a Remote System via Certificate Authentication

In z/OS Explorer, all Remote System connection types (FTP, SSH, z/OS, etc.) are by default set to the user ID of the workstation that the client is installed on. To change the Default ID for various connections a user can navigate to Windows/Prefe...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Delivered

User set in CICS Liberty TAI should be accounted in SMF

CICS Liberty Profile uses the user set in the authorization header for SMF accounting.While the transaction is running we can find in Omegamon for CICS the user which was set by methode"TAIResult.create(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK, personalizedUser)...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

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