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Cobol V5/6: Additional RULES suboption (NO)UNREF to flag unreferenced variables

One available solution for storage optimization is compile option STGOPT. With this option the compiler discards unreferenced data items. Instead of using compiler option STGOPT, we would prefer to eliminate unused data items from source for bette...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

TPFRESTGEN PRAGMA PACK Options

Allow the ability to set a PRAGMA PACK value for the TPFRESTGEN utility. This will use the PRAGMA PACK value provided by the user and it will be the PRAGMA PACK value used to generate the REST C headers.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Enhance AUXTRSW SIT Parm to off ALL option (like AUXTRSW)

The Dump Dataset Switch SIT Parm currently only offers NO and NEXT as options for no switching or a single switch of the datasets. No further switches will occur without a subsequent CEMT/EXEC CICS SET DUMPDS SWITCH (such as via automation or syst...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Add ASID as match criteria for scheduling feature

The scheduling feature has restrictions that prevent multiple concurrent requests on the same jobname entered by the same user. ASID is not part of the match criteria.
over 7 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Delivered

Program Control Flow fails on Cobol Editor error token

RDz Cobol editor doesn't tolerate the missing space and throws 'Error_Token unexpected tokens ignored' error. This in turn causes the Program Control Flow to fail. RDz COBOL editor behavior is inconsistent with the mainframe COBOL compiler where a...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Dynamically limit the Remote Monitor view poll interval when it results in huge results sets

In the Remote Monitor view -> Retrieved jobs, check Poll Wait Inteval set to minimum, msg "Fetching children of retrieved jobs" pops up every 5 seconds in the lower right corner when the result set is huge (example, when user does not filter JE...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Delivered

Controlling CICS detailed internal tracing from a line mode transaction such as CEMT

The facility to control the SPCTR STNTR SYSTR USERTR trace settings through a line mode command such as CEMT S INTTRACE (or similar).Optionally also the trace settings for each domain setting.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 10 Delivered

CICS OSCORE SMF record

State Street Corporation is interested in an additional statistic; that of the largest available low Dynamic Storage Area. We, and other CICS shops, are still running legacy CICS programs that consume a significant amount of DSA. This factor requi...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Improve CWS Statistics

TCPIPService statistics has a field called SOR_TRANS_ATTACHED, which has a description of 'The number of transactions attached by this TCP/IP Service'. The name and description of this field was perhaps correct many years ago when CWS attached one...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Provide tiling options for the TOS gui, both at launch time and later.

Predecessor step: correct issue where the -sf option does not work with a locked gui. Otherwise tiling will provide little benefit. Provide the ability to tile host sessions within the gui in different ways: 1 Tiling example at gui startup: jcon.b...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Delivered

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