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Support AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications

Hello IBM, AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications is currently not officially supported by IBM. However, 64-bits support already exist for C applications.Adding support for PL/I only requires simple updates to the CMQEPP copybook. Here is an exa...
3 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

Reduce the amount of storage used by the JSONGet functions

We see high cpu from LE 'Get a stack' from build in PL/1 JSONGet functions like JsonGetValue. Please reduce the stack used storage in the JSONGet functions.
9 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow specification of constants in the VALUE clause of the DEFINE ORDINAL statement

The compiler is currently flagging the following code /* HTTP status codes */ DCL 01 HTTP_STATUS_CODE ,05 OK BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(200) ,05 CREATED BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(201) ,05 ACCEPTED BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(202) ,05 NO_CONTENT BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(203...
25 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

IMS DB metrics support for anomaly detection

Add IMS DB metrics in Concert for Z, for anomaly detection using Machine Learning techniques
25 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Concert for Z KPI for IMS

Would you add the following KPIs for IMS?Our customer is thinking to use IBM Concert for Z to detect the anomaly about the folloiwngs Response time for each IMS transaction Usage of buffer pool for each ones; DB buffer, PSB/DMB pool, DFSPOOL, ...
28 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

IBM Concert for Z Japanese panel support

Our customers want to have Japanese panels, such as report title, description, expert advice and help. Especially expert advice function is approved by many customers when they see the demo and they are also disappointed it is just in English only...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the batch program to send SMP/E information to IBM Concert for Z

Our customer wants to collect SMP/E information using the batch job to use IBM Concert for Z in the separate system from the target z/OS.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the APAR list on APAR Management of IBM Concert for Z

Our customers want to have the panel for the followings. (1) HOLD Action description for the specific APAR (2) APAR lists which is required to apply by each LPAR To follow their current operation for APAR Management, they need these functions in a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Planned for future release

Add JSONIGNORE attribute similar to XMLIGNORE

The JSONIGNORE attribute would indicate that an element should be ignored by the JSON functions. If the attribute is specified on a substructure, all of the elements of the structure will be ignored. We also need the JSONOMIT attribute to be exten...
2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Make more z/OS instructions available as builtin functions

Given recent addition of many z/OS instructions as builtin functions, it might be useful to add another one, in casu "LOAD REVERSED", to swap directly between big-endian and little-endian formats, rather than do this via declarations of variables ...
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release