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Notice of new functionality

When a PTF with new functionality is installed, it sets a "PTF news flag" which triggers at DSC session startup a message like "New functionality installed. Enter DSCNEW to see details, etc..".Once you issue DSCNEW, your PROFILE is updated accordi...
over 5 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Built-in Support for PDS Processing

Currently, in order to read all members of a PDS it's necessary to first read the directory and create an array of member names, then either use an Assembler program to read each member or from PL/I dynamically allocate each fully qualified member...
almost 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Request to IBM to secure all Toolkit to TPF Connections

TPF Toolkit is using unsecured protocols to communicate with z/TPF. Specifically FTP. We are requesting that this protocol be changed to Secure FTP.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Delivered

RDz CARMA opens Endevor package for edit when the same package is being updated using "native" Endevor (ISPF)

Customer would like RDz CARMA to verify that Endevor package is not currently being updated by another user before opening it for edit. Customer would also like RDz CARMA to lock/enqueue Endevor package when opened for edit so that another user ca...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 4 Delivered

Assembler Macro expansion feature

We are told that IBM is working on a Macro expansion feature and that this will be available in a future AD release.We do not have any visibility of this future release so we are raising a RFE to track. AD works fine with assembler INCLUDES but no...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Delivered

zUnit: No manual input values ??can be entered for FILLER fields using the test case editor

If a field on level 05 has been defined with a FILLER, it is not possible to specify a return value in the Test Case Editor. Unfortunately, this then means that subsequent processes cannot run through successfully because the return value from the...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Delivered

Copy local COBOL-Sources to z/OS: encoding-warning

We want to copy local COBOL-Sources (from Project-Explorer) to MVS-Files. The files don't contain any HEX-code or any unusual characters. The source isw copied correctly, but since IDz 14.2.2 there is an Encoding Warning: "The file contains charac...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

IMS generic id mapping is not working for save/set data naming parttern

If generic userid's are used, then userid mapping does not work for setsave and setbps datasets
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Add support of defined structures to the PL/I SQL preprocessor

We would like to have defined structures supported by the PL/I SQL preprocessor.
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Add support of ordinals to the PL/I SQL preprocessor

We would like to have ordinals supported by the PL/I SQL preprocessor with the following mapping rules: - Don't allow 1-byte ordinals to use in SQL- Map 2-byte ordinals to SMALLINT – regardless if signed or unsigned.- Map 4-byte ordinals to INT – ...
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

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