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Timestamp in PL/I

A builtin function for getting a full timestamp like in DB2.
almost 12 years ago in PL/I Compilers 10 Delivered

Cobol V5 - Reintroduce "Intrinsic Function Implementation Considerations" chapter in "Performance Tuning" manual

In the previous version of "Performance Tuning" manual, an appendix provided some informations on the implementation of "intrinsic functions", namely if it were implemented as "inline" code, call to a Language Environment service, or part of an ex...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

OTMA TPIPE queue depth monitoring

We have a business requirement where we need to monitor OTMA TPIPE queue depth before messages are placed in the TPIPE. We do not want to add ‘dis tmember xxxx tpipe xxxx' logic to our high volume transactions. We would like the have the capabilit...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Enable EGL datagrid to show scrollbar and header at same time

Because our customer's screen limitation (800x600), so they need EGL datagrid show scrollbar and header at same time.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Incomplete migration of volume (PACBASE "V" entities) in RPP

Incomplete migration of volume (PACBASE "V" entities) in RPP Please see the attached file.In PACBASE you have a volume with a Data Aggregate (see below) You can see a text associate with EC15 Data Aggregate (SEC15AT) and details (-CE) of the Data ...
almost 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Prevent High CPU consumption when using very Large MVS-Files Filters

Users can cause High CPU consumption when using very Large MVS-Files Filters Large filters can be created using the Filter properties dialog. Then the filter can be expanded to include multiple filters e.g. SYS1.* SYS2.?* etc
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

use dynamic substitution for group and list in the CSD

provide variables for list and groups names plus resource definitions within the CSD then allow dynamic substitution of those variables at CICS startup and resource install
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Provide a precompiler option whether // is recognized as an end of line comment or not

Please provide a macro preprocessor option to control whether // is recognized as an end of line comment or not
almost 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

End of support NPAPI

Firefox has recently announced that it will be dropping its NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) plugin support by the end of 2016. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in its Edge browser in Windows 10. Google Chrome has dropped N...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Delivered

For AD 505+, need to be able to pre-alloc repository DB2 databases instead of having BUILD CLIENT dynamically create them

Customer (JOHN DEERE..makes tractors and other farming equipment) wants to create project databases in advance via their own DB2 DDL, instead of Application Discovery generating DDL via build client as a new project is generated.