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File Manager for z/OS

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Do not show fields in a copybook that are not part of a variable length record, when the length is less that the copybook

“While viewing a variable length file(QSAM/VSAM) in FileManager, using the single formatted record, it would make sense that it should first look at the two bytes of the RDW to determine how far to scroll down. Currently there is no distinction be...
almost 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Manage MQ access in File Manager

Enhance File Manager to support internal security checking of XFACILIT class profiles in the form: FILEM.sysplex_name.mq_manager.resource_name Where sysplex_name - The z/OS sysplex name. mq_manager - The MQ manager name. resource - The MQ queue na...
almost 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Sort numeric fields in numeric order

When sorting a numeric field, File Manager sorts in Character order. This causes negative numeric values to be sorted in non-numeric sequence.
about 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add Option to suppress IPV0030I and IPV0031I Messages

Currently the ADFzCC-Server issues an IPV0030I and an IPV0031I-mesage for every request that is issued from the Fault Analyzer RDz-Client. These are written to the Unix System log and through this are routed to our system console. According to the...
over 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Delivered

Enhance PDTools plug-ins to provide Multi Factor Authentication capability

Customer's team uses plug-ins to access the PD Tools products (FA, FM, DT, APA), but they must enable MFA (multi-factor authentication, a.k.a. 2FA or 2-factor authentication) in order for their security implementation to work.
over 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

When doing a keyed compare and the records are out of sequence we would like a message that indicaes the record number or key

When a keyed file compare is done and the records are not in proper sequence the program ends with a return code 8 and does not indicate where the issue is
about 7 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

File Manger editor to enable block selection like LPEX or CNTL+ALT+A in other editors

as Title... File Manger to enable block selection like LPEX or CNTL+ALT+A in other editors
about 7 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Filemgr not working with DFSMS SYS% facility

We are currently running z/OS 2.2 with FM Release 13.01. We use the DFSMS SYS% facility in order to clone our systems. SYS% allows you to reference the same data set one a different volume.You can read more about it in the DFSMS Managing Catalogs ...
over 7 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Delivered

file manager - mqseries editor - need to be able to open remote queues for output only

file manager - mqseries editor - need to be able to open remote queues for output onlyIn File Manager 13.1, option 9.3, if an alias mqseries queue that is associated with a remote queue is selected, file manager issues a RC=2045, because the queue...
over 7 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Use IMS Catalog to Generate File Manager IMS Template

Would like FM IMS to support using the IMS Catalog to generate IMS Database templates.
over 7 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Delivered

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