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New built-in function to retrieve defined groups of a REGEX

For the lately introduces regex functionality in PL1, it would be very useful to have (according to C's regexec) a new built-in for retrieving parts (content of capturing groups) directly.Furthermore, adding flags for the regex definition e.g case...
about 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

FA - Add BEAR display for Batch Dump Analysis

Batch abend analysis in FA does not show the BEAR (Breaking Event Address Register) in Batch-Dumps. The BEAR is available in many z/OS (SDWA, ESPIE, RTM) diagnostic control blocks. Currently BEAR is only shown in FA with CICS transaction dumps. Bu...
about 5 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Make CICS PA Dashboards available in SPLUNK also available in Elastic and Kibana

We acquired the CICS PA Tool last year (2020) as part of our decommissioning of TMON for CICS for the reporting. We are currently using SAS/MXG to build our CICS reports from the TMON for CICS records. We recently saw a presentation with sending C...
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Option to display DCB information in File Manager output

We would like an option to list DCB information for input/output files used in a File Manager step. If the DCB information is not listed in the job output developers need to split screen, copy dataset name, and inquire each dataset individually. L...
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Lock template

We would like the ability to lock templates to prevent users from accidentally saving criteria that was intended to be temporary. This option must be intentionally set by template and users should not able to unlock from the the record identificat...
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Delivered

Create new option to split sysprint output, would like File Manager Headers, options and $$FILEM details sent to another dd

We want to send Part 1 or Part 2 to another DD without having a separate step to extract the data. PART 1: 1IBM File Manager for z/OS 0 - 0FMNBA001 IBM File Manager for z/OS Version 11 Release 1 0FMNBA010 APF authorized 0FMNBA010 Service Levels of...
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add new RULES([NO]COMPLEX) option with ALL | SOURCE as suboption

We would like to get a new RULES([NO]COMPLEX) option with ALL | SOURCE as suboption: - COMPLEX is the default- With the suptoption ALL (default) or SOURCE with the same meanings like for all other options. Under NOCOMPLEX:- any COMPLEX contants (s...
almost 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Add new message for typos in usage of compound assignment operators

We would like to have a new message issued for every “=+” or “=-“ informing or warning that this statement is wrong, if use of the compound assignment operator was meant. So this message can easily resolved by adding brackets or blanks: i1 =(+ 1);...
almost 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Provide the same CSV options for File Manager/DB2 Export as for File Manager Data Set Copy

This would provide similar functions as the ISV products. When migrating from ISV products to File Manager/DB2 with a CSV extract, we can't create the same type of output.
over 1 year ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Case Insensitive Compare

We would like to have a checkbox to choose if compare is case sensitive or not.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

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