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HoD 5250 Telnet TLS-SSL

Sessions is set manually for Telnet-TLS connections. This need to be made by server centrally configuration.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Is a defect

Control the number of DFHAP1900 messages

With the CTS 5.1 we have a valuable feature: Log of SPI - activities. But a central application must work with ... taname FEPI SET NODE(AZP050) USERDATA(KN03) RESP... ... the FEPI SET command. With round about 600.000 messages per CICS and day we ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Is a defect

modify the MSDB-to-DEDB Conversion utility (DBFUCDB0)

hi would like to know if you can modify the utility to correctly report the record count for databases with more than 32K database records because larger record counts cause it to wrap and/or be interpreted as a negative binary number. it would be...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Is a defect

ZMDES Clean Up after zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or zOLDR Delete

1. ZMDES Manage Deployment Descriptors Process requires multi-CPU/LPAR clean up after a zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or Delete. The other LPARS in the z/TPF Loosely Coupled Complex (LCC) generally do not have their tables updated until an IPL. This...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Is a defect

File Manager Editor, display characters using selected encoding in the text representation

Using File Manager Editor, display content of the text representation using IBM-277 encoding.
almost 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Is a defect

Enterprise Cobol V4/V6 - Defect - Error in mask for numeric-edited currency sign with 3 characters

There is an error in the generation of the mask that allows to edit a numeric value with both a currency symbol of more than one character, and a floating sign.At execution a part of currency symbol is lost. This concerns the Enterprise Cobol comp...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Is a defect

Cobol V6R2 - Set default value of undefined compilation variable to false (B'0')

The assignment of the default value B'1' to an undefined compilation-variable-name does not seem to be a good choice because it implicitly implies the inclusion of a text conditioned by this compilation-variable-name. The default value of an undef...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Is a defect

Bring IBM AD Source checks in Line with IBM Compilers

IBM AD used as analysis and cross reference tool. When adding source code some code is not added into the repository because it fails IBM AD syntax checking. All the code loaded is from production libraries and the code passed the IBM compilers al...

WUI "Active tasks" view. The previous selected data remain on the screen after a invalid selection.

On the view "Active tasks", after a previous selection, customer has informed an invalid value, e.g., in the field "Taskid". CPSM / WUI issued a error message informing the value is not valid, but the previous presented data still remain in the sc...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Is a defect

Improve Report Performance

On large applications the report process does not complete.