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Add a "STRICT" option to the "NOLAXDCL" option

NOLAXDCL(STRICT) should disallow all implicit and contextual declarations EVEN for BUILTINs and for files SYSIN and SYSPRINT, giving as a minimum an "I" type message, although I would prefer an "E" type message. 
about 21 hours ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS Submitted

Make the IDz JCL Outline terminate an in-stream PROC scope at a valid PEND statement

Request Enhance the JCL Editor Outline in IBM Developer for z/OS so that a valid PEND statement terminates the current in-stream procedure scope in the Outline structure. Statements following PEND should be displayed at the enclosing job level unl...
3 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Submitted

Allow 4 to 5 sysplexes to be managed by a GSMPlex

Reduces the number of K systems required to manage a large scale ecosystem.
3 days ago in GDPS Submitted

Base64 functions should be able to take a extra parameter for USAGE(BASE64(STD)) or USAGE(BASE64(URL)) instead of only from compiler option.

The PL/1 build in BASE64 functions uses compiler options BASE64(STD) / BASE64(URL) to control the encoding in regards to padding and the chars used. When creating a common include member that contains a base64 function it therefore relies on the c...
3 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS Submitted

Increase the number of Pool Directories that be skipped during an unplanned outage to prevent lost pool addresses caused by CYA90004I ZEROED DURING SKIPPING.

Likely, the implementation will use system heap rather than expanding the number of #SONSKP ordinal numbers. We need to support more than 3 directories being zeroed. In your case, it is possible that all 10 directories in a directory set can be ze...
5 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Future consideration

Improve visibility when no results are returned in Zowe Explorer

For Zowe Explorer search queries that return no results (e.g. searching for a PDS that has been deleted), Zowe Explorer currently shows the node “No data sets found” within the Zowe Explorer treeview (screenshot below), but it’s quite subtle: Ther...
5 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE Submitted

Instance Controller Network config page: need a text field to easily identify the purpose / use of the port.

Anyone acting as an administrator would not have to research why a given port is being used.  Many of our systems have dozens of ports. 
5 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

On-Demand Report Emails

It would allow users to send previously created reports via email when they choose. Users would have the option to choose a report from any date and have the option to email it to the email address of their choosing.
5 days ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS Under review

Embedding gradle plugins in the Designer image

As you can see in TS022940654 we have a problem with the Designer that forces us to connect/disconnect the VPN to be able to make a buld of the project and later test the API. The problem would be avoided if the image with which the container is c...
5 days ago in z/OS Connect Submitted

Provide possibility to limit to limit or stop the creation of excessive connections in CDP

We experienced an incident in which excessive TCP/IP storage consumption disrupted TCP/IP processing across the sysplex while CDP was creating an unlimited number of connections. CDP does not issue a specific SYSOUT message that can be used to tri...
5 days ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics Submitted

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