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Automatic Binary Optimizer

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Reduce a memory usage for ABO V1.2

Issue summary:Spending a huge memory usage by ABO V1.2. Details:This customer which has been testing ABO V1.2 from 1Q/2017 faces to remarkably run short of memory. (e.g. it's needed 5GB memory for 650k OFFSET size.)There is a possibility that will...
about 7 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 4 Delivered

ABO Return Code

ABO ends a job with RC 8 (which means an ERROR ) if at least one module could not be optimized. Because it is more or less normal that ABO can not optimize each module it catches by the given directive a RC 4 (WARNING) should be sufficient. Sugges...
over 6 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 3 Delivered

Performance improvement for transformation listing generated during ABO optimizing.

As the analysis of ABO optimized phase, BOC clients found listing generation process took too much resource usage.Please kindly tune the performance of list generation better, otherwise an option is needed to switch off the "list transformation" g...
over 6 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 2 Delivered

Automatic binary Optimizer: program segmentation for BCP

The customer requires support for Program Segmentation in Cobol CICS program using ABO. The customer is BCP from Perú
almost 7 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 3 Delivered

Allow product to determine the output member name when using a specific member named on the INPUT

When a full member name is provided to the IN on the BOPT directive: BOPT IN=DD:SYSBIN(ABC1234) The OUT member name is required. When a wildcard is used, the production will determine the output member name. The documentation is not clear on this ...
almost 8 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 2 Delivered

ABO supporting EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND

Most of Brazilian z Systems customers use EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND command, ABO is not supporting this kind of command yet.
almost 8 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 2 Delivered