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allocate commarea above the line when XCTL

Customer had SOS in below the 16M storage.The storage allocated below the line were commarea. Many transactions were waiting for file for a long time because of slow DASD response and transactions were building up. Most of transactions executed XC...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

new LIMITS-STRING-Suboption 64K

the compiler option limits(string(64K)) should be also allowedVARYING strings could then still have a 2-byte prefix, but the compiler and library code would treat that length prefix as UNSIGNED FIXED BIN(16). in this case the compiler should use a...
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

NVP(Name Value Pair) Area Display in Dumps

It would be helpful if NVP area would always be included when dumping all ECBs.
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

XMLNAME attribute for xmlchar

XMLCHAR converts a structure to XML sometimes it's necessary to use XML names including none allowed PLI characters (e.g. ":")
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Support new JCL from z/OS V2R1

JCL Editor breaks on z/OS V2R1 features like EXPORT SYMLIST Please see following JCL: //MKAIQM JOB 7904,KAISER,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),MSGCLASS=K,CLASS=A, // NOTIFY=&SYSUID,REGION=512M // EXPORT SYMLIST=(YEAR,USER,QMDIR,QMFILE,QMDSN) // SET YEAR='2015'...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Rich UI Editor - Folding - option Collapse All is missing

RBD, Rich UI Editor, *.egl sourceRight click on left border in source editor tab (dark grey bar), Select option Folding, shows options [ExpandAll, Expand, Collapse] Please add option Collapse AllThis feature will add value for analysing/developing...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

z/OS Explorer to support Smartcard for client certificates

z/OS Explorer does not support smartcards.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

(TPFUG) Support tpf_STCKE_to_timet and tpf_timet_to_STCKE

The tpf_STCK_to_timet and tpf_timet_to_STCK APIs convert an 8 byte TOD format used by STCK/STCKF to a time_t and vice versa. But the 8 byte TOD format will wrap in 2042. As part of the strategy to remediate existing date problems and avoid new one...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Better handling of 0 ODO structures

Complex structure with Occurs Depending On cannot be monitored in DebugTool if ODO-Variable has Value of zero. All variables (beginning with the one with zero length) in this structure gets "Incorrect value for ODO variable xx program-name:>var...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Set a pacing value for ENF SIGNAL TYPE 71 notifications within a single LPAR

Our LPAR was kicked out of the SYSPLEX because the increase for additional SQA had exhausted the available CSA when numerous security updates were signaled. All of our CICS regions (approximately 180), executing under CICS TS 5.3, had the RACFSYNC...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

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