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    Enable zHyperwrite for VSAM and VSAM-RLS files in SIT

    We're looking to implement zHyperwrite on our system, it's already active for DB2/MQ, and we will soon deliver the APAR (UJ92354) for vsam part. Following this documentation : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=performance-zhyperwrite It'...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL - Native handling of output streams equivalent to stderr and stdout

    HI, COBOL programs compiled with IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS only support a single output stream associated with the DISPLAY statement. A priori, running under MVS, this output stream corresponds to STDERR (file descriptor number 2) in other l...
    5 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Allow OMITTED parameters in function identifier.

    The COBOL 2002 standard allows for the OMITTED keyword to be specified as a parameter to a function identifier. This should be allowed for Enterprise COBOL. It could be implemented in a manner similar to specifying OMITTED as a parameter in a CALL...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

    COBOL function hbound() for tables

    COBOL has no easy way to check a table index or subscript against the OCCURS [... TO] {n} TIMES value. You can define an OCCURS constant to check against, but this requires application maintenance correctly preserve the correspondence when the tab...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Data of DFHPI0715 message are not correct

    When CEMT P PIPE SCAN command ends, the following message is issued: DFHPI0715 I 05/23/2018 15:20:26 CICSPA01 CHGMAN PIPELINE PIPEPROH explicit scan has completed. Number of wsbind files found in the WSDIR directory: 002493. Number of WEBSERVICEs ...
    about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    CICS Policy for Abend - DFHTACB > N force out Recursive Abend.

    Force out looping Abending task, building up DFHTACB to avoid SOS
    6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    User defined constants

    Implement user defined constants using the COBOL Standard "Constant entry".
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

    Enable CPSM EYU9XLOP as threadsafe in CICS

    Need CPSM routing code (EYU9XLOP) to run threadsafe in routing region
    over 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    JSON PARSE error handling improvements

    JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose messages and tokens to application code. It would be helpful if application logic can determine which PARSE messages to display or suppress. Also, message tokens can be useful in error handling in...
    almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Bring SupportPac CS04 / wsbind utility into base support

    SupportPac CS04, the wsbind utility, is current as-is and its functionality should be brought into base CICS support and managed between releases.
    over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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