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    IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

    In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage.For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there is an APAR to ...
    over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Enterprise COBOL - Add a report of lines impacted by the REPLACE compiler directive

    Hi, The REPLACE compiler directive allows replacements of COBOL source text, a priori after processing the COPY directives: from the point where it is declared until the end of the source code, or until the REPLACE OFF directive. However, it...
    about 2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Create SMF79.15 records when IRLM TIMEOUT value is exceeded but before IMS LOCKTIME is

    If LOCKTIME is set in the DFSVSMxx member of the IMS proclib, the creation of SMF 79.15 only occurs at the same time as a 3310 abend for environments other than IMS batch. If SMF 79.15 records are created when IRLM TIMEOUT has been exceeded regard...
    over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

    Limit the region type for IRLM lock timeout function

    In Japan, most banking customers use an application framework called SAIL, an asset of IBM Japan Consulting, running in their production core banking systems. In the SAIL system, the SAIL control regions run as MPP and the application regions run ...
    almost 2 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

    the creation of an option to inhibit or manage appropriately Assignment name for environment variable

    Dynamic allocation can introduce opportunities for system vulnerability
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL - Conditional compilation variables containing the names of the current Division, Section, and Paragraph

    Hi, We would like to have conditional compilation variables containing the current Division, Section, and Paragraph names at compile time: IGY-DIVISION-NAME, (force name to uppercase, default is space if before ID DIVISION) IGY-SECTION-NAME, (...
    2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    COBOL DISPLAY prefixed by program-id - compile option

    If COBOL developers make DISPLAY in CICS and do not ensure that the DISPLAY-text contains a unique identifier, it can be very difficult to find the programs, that make the DISPLAYs and a lot of parallel DISPLAYs can be a serious performance proble...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

    JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL specified at run time

    It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL phrase of JSON PARSE can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Add Cobol language command for support Base64 Code/Decode

    Permit Receive/Send special characters from/to MF without have conversion problems
    almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Provide COBOL support for YAML and utility to convert DTD to a COBOL record definition,

    We have a data structure/format in .YAML /YML file. And require ability/utility to convert YML DTD to a COBOL equivalent copybook
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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