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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

z/OS Connect EE - Policies to support DB2 via REST Client Service Provider

Currently Policies are available in z/OS Connect for CICS and IMS related API. Nationwide would like to see that same capability made available for DB2 for via the REST Client service provider. (Split out from RFE 124692: https://www.ibm.com/devel...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays for the build toolkit for Top-Down service creation using JSON schemas

Add support for Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays for the build toolkit for Top-Down service creation using JSON schemas. When arrays are defined using API Toolkit the Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays options are both available, but w...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Add new warning message for misuse of a literal as output argument

We would like to get warning messages issued, when a literal is passed as argument, which was explicitly declared as inOut or outOnly. The compiler handles this correct, but of course, the output value is lost. From our point of view, such code is...
5 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Make CICS Time-of-Day Viewable in CICS Explorer and the CPSM WUI for each CICS TS address space

In supporting a large environment (500+ CICS regions) running at different CICS Time-of-Day, it would be very valuable to be able to view the CICS Time-of-Day in CICS Explorer or the CPSM WUI. TICTOC is used to alter the time of day for some regio...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Better support for non unique names in COBOL

zUnit needs to support non-unique names in the Test Case Editor. Today it is partly supported. If you have a data structure like:01 A 02 B PIC x(10) 02 REDEFINES B 03 B PIC S9(4) BINARY 03 D PIC PIC X(8). 02 C PIC X. 02 C PIC X.The last occurrence...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Delivered

DBB JCLExec remove dependency to SDSF

When you want to use the JCLExec from a DBB groovy script you can only do this if you use SDSF. We use EJES instead of SDSF and get transaction dumps.
almost 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Delivered

GDPS Procedure to remove PPRC links without need to do a new geoparm config

To make the removal of PPRC links, it's necessary to alter the GEOPARM file and do a new geoparm config into GDPS, process that disables the hyperswap feature, exposing the environment.
about 9 years ago in GDPS 8 Delivered

Feature Request - JSON PARSE - [" was found, but one of LEFT CURLY BRACKET was expected

It is possible in the JSON standard for a top-level JSON to have an array, e.g. [{..}, {..}]. However, this cannot be read with the current JSON parse, instead you have to build an object around it with string processing so that you can parse it. ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Delivered

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