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Warning Message when using VLR(Standard) and FILE STATUS=4 COBOL V5

COBOL Version 5:If no File Description exists for the smallest and the largest Record, the file status is 04, as difference to COBOL Version 4.So for cleaning the programs, i like to set the VLR(standard) option.But then i want to get a warning (o...
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

Enhance z/os Explorer and IDz JMON so that idle connections with no timeout are cleaned up

The JESMiner is not able to handle the case when the JMON TIMEOUT function is disabled (TIMEOUT = 0). In this situation, FEJJCNFG shows JMON's timeout is disabled withTIMEOUT=0. Because of this JMON will not kill idle threads. The JES miner is res...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Delivered

Support for IMS Large Data Service

When dealing with an IMS Service message with a length greater than 32k, it seems that there is no need to use a Large Data Service and an IMS service can always be used as it accounts for this. However, a flag that gives the option of z/OS Connec...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Allow full job name in job name mask when creating multi-job measurements

Allow the specification of full job name (8 characters) when creating multi-job measurements using the % wild card character in the job name mask.Documentation in this area needs to be clarified.
over 7 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Delivered

USER login message

Please add a message to the TLVLOG for each user that authenticates to SuperSession including a timestamp, the RACF USERID and the APPLID, e.g.2020.054 01:52:33.14 UID=V597696 logged on to CLSSRW1
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS TCPIPService not closing in an orderly manner at shutdown.

The TCPIPService is not closed or deregistered during normal shutdown of a CICS listening region in a manner that allows for the workload to be shifted to another listening region in a seamless manner. The current process at shutdown will accept c...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Coding own FUNCTIONS

Extend the scope of available Functions to be extended by own coding.Own functions could be locally defined (contained program) or in it's own source and be available for external users (as a normal sub program).
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

New compile option to control the Instruction Overflow Mask for vector instructions (z15)

With ARCH(13) a new z15 facility is used to suppress decimal overflow exceptions on all vector-packed-decimal instructions. Although not common to COBOL we would like to receive 0CA-abends in COBOL applications in order to fix size errors.Once fix...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Limitation of the default Field size of all fields

Currently the field lengths are defaulted to 255 and even when we are using the defaultCharacterMaxLength property to default the field to some other value, copybooks generated aren't picking them.I think if we can have this field length derived f...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

RTMC - Grafana links for orgID != 1

The RTMC starter kit dashboards provide internal links that reference orgID=1. This appears to be the default Grafana organization. When multiple organizations are defined in Grafana this may lead to 404 errors when navigating through dashboards. ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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