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"Complete" Code Coverage report covering multiple runs

It would be great to have the possibility to generate a "complete" code coverage report, on multiple job executions, showing us the "total" percentage and total number of lines of code which was actual covered, combined in the different job execut...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Allow IMS/MFS/OLP(operator logical pagin) to page beyond 4096 screens

Unknown to most, there currently is a limit of 4096 screens that can be returned (IOPCB type output) using MFS OLP feature (Operator Logical Paging). We are currently hitting this limit in our software at several large telco clients. The limit is/...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 3 Delivered

Microseconds in PL/I

All Date/Time routines (BIF) should support at least microseconds (or better). Actually it's just milliseconds.
almost 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Dynamic Variable Program calls

Allow for batch method of updating dynamic call programs
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Delivered

TWS/SA Asynchronous command completion

The TWS/SA interface allows for asynchronous commands by specifying the a 'Completion Checking Routine' in the Completion Info field. This is great, but completion of the TWS operation can only be done by the 'Completion Checking Routine' using it...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Delivered

Exclude source lines of the false branches of conditional compilations from the Listing

Source lines corresponding to a false branch in a conditional compilation should be excluded from the Listing for readability. For that, it would be necessary:- have a compilation option and / or compilation directive to control the inclusion of s...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Delivered

Link to JavaScript files i.s.o copying them into deployed EGL RUI HTML (Dynamic Loading)

When deploying an EGL RUI handler to an HTML file, all referenced JavaScript files are copied into the HTML. This makes the HTML really large, increasing load time and initial response in the browser. It also causes duplication of widget JavaScrip...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 7 Delivered

No NULL value columns for fields, which according to the WHERE clause conditions can't exist in the SQL result

IMS databases can have multiple different layouts on the same segment. Before accessing such a segment using SQL these different layouts need to be defined with a DFSMAP/DFSCASE mapping definition, which describes to IMS which layout needs to be u...
about 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 2 Delivered

MQ support when called from subroutine

Please enhance ADDI to support MQ when variables involved in MQ statement are declared and resolved in one program and MQ calls is made from another program
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

/fb command shall produce a log file the simmilar as /m1 does

New CLI command introduced in v5.1.0.5 full build in background /fb produces the log file in the same way as using the foreground build client. Would be good that this /fb command would produce the log file in the same manner as /m1 command does n...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Delivered

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