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fieldformat not changed - case sensitive

We imported a pl/1 Structur. After import alle the fields in lower case changed to uppercase, this is not nice, because the developper has to change the format every time he changes the service. It would be good if the fields keep the format defin...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 6 Delivered

Remove ACTIVE JOBS filter under JES

Due to active jobs filter as it is driving extremely high CPU on the Host system and slowing down the Development environment for everyone. We want to remove that option while packaging the IDZ.
6 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Add the hability to process NULL values in COBOL

In order to use some REST/JSON APIs, we need to be able to process NULL value in COBOL. We had oppened the TS004435032 support case on this matter. Is it possible to add cobol support for NULL values or to add it to the JSON PARSE & GENERATE J...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Delivered

Support Db2 102 Class 7 Statistics

Db2 class 7 statistics in SMF 102 will help in debugging client connections to Db2. MF 102 Class(7) - IFCID(365) data DSN.V12R1M0.SDSNIVPD(DSNWMSGS) Line 00000003630000 QW00 |_________________________________________________________|0000 QW00 | |0...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Delivered

Set report of all errors found when reloading a new GEOPARM (in a single validation sequence)

In large GEOPARMs, the verification can take several minutes. When the GDPS performs the reload/validation of the GEOPARM, it stops if it finds syntactic errors. They must be corrected and perform the syntactic validations again, then the consiste...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 3 Delivered

Select which teps are used with custom dashboards

It is currently possible to define up to 6 teps in SMU. Unfortunately, you cannot select components for every server. The custom dashboards that you create automatically only retrieve the data where components have been selected. "Default TEPS" It...
11 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Delivered

ZOA helper scripts support through NetView when SDSF is unavailable

As a shop not running SDSF we still need the job interaction and MVSOPER utilities of ZOA. This can be achieved by adding logic to the Helper scripts that interact with SDSF for issuing commands and interacting with jobs, and if SDSF is unavailabl...
almost 4 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 4 Delivered

z/OS Connect SMF123 Enhancements

Objective To add more data to the z/OS Connect Audit record for auditing and monitoring purposes. Description As the SMF123 record is described as the z/OS Conned Audit record, it would be appropriate that more information from USS log files shoul...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Allow python code to utilize zIIP processors

As we modernize our mainframe patching infrastructure and use python to implement, we do not want to introduce more CPU consumption in the process of trying to enhance our environment for the future. Allowing python to execute on zIIP would be an ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 2 Delivered

support JSONOMIT for structures

Using the attribute JSONOMIT does not work on structures, only on variables. Therefore it is possible that there will be created null-objects if all variables of a structure are empty. To avoid empty objects (null-Objects --> :{}) and related P...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

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