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    Extend functionality of &OJOBNAME substitution also for the JCL JOB card.

    Even &OJOBNAME is correctly substituted but not in the JCL JOB card - what in our case is the biggest issue now. Suggested solution: When JCL Expert sees &OJOBNAME in the JCL JOB CARD, it should replace it with the real member name (or jus...
    10 months ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 3 Under review

    Need error (or warning) message for DSN= without DISP=.

    Details: Every DD DSN= should code a disposition (DISP=). Taking the default DISP (NEW) is never desired, and is risky. Currently, the existing JCL-checker product from another vendor detects this condition, and spits out an error message like thi...
    3 months ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 0 Submitted

    Make debug variables available in TRACE DEBUG as they are available in TRACE FATAL

    Description: Extend the TRACE logging functionality to include debug variables in TRACE and DEBUG levels, similar to the existing behavior in TRACE FATAL. This will provide more detailed information during debugging and troubleshooting. Use Case: ...
    11 months ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 0 Under review

    Support for Local JCL and PROC Validation

    Use Case: Developers need to validate JCL and PROCs locally before mainframe deployment, to find errors earlier. Proposed Solution: Introduce an option to specify a local directory/path for JCL and PROCs. Resolve PROC calls within the local direct...
    11 months ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 0 Under review

    Support for Resolving BMC Control-M Scheduler Variables in JCLs within IBM JCLExpert

    Currently, IBM JCLExpert provides intelligent analysis and validation capabilities for JCLs but does not support the resolution of BMC Control-M scheduler variables embedded in JCL statements. As a result, JCLs containing Control-M substitution va...
    5 months ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 0 Planned for future release

    Prepare the product using z/OSMF for Software Management

    Software management by z/OSMF would make new function, Installation, FIXes, and APARs handling easier.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 0 Planned for future release

    JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

    We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
    about 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

    WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

    Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
    over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

    Web Service support for WS-Atomic Transaction

    Support is required for Web Service Atomic Transaction, see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.zseries.doc/info/zseries/ae/cjta_wstran.html
    about 18 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

    request to support packaging the fda7.jar at the EAR level

    When moving the fda7.jar at the EAR level, EGL Web service fails with error Caused by: java.rmi.RemoteException: EGL1603E An error occurred while loading the com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService service. Error: com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService_I...
    over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

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