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Launch a HOD session in FULL SCREEN mode for all users.

Customer needs to set from the HOD server side a "FULL SCREEN MODE" option so that all users get this feature enabled upon initially launching their HOD session.
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 4 Delivered

Display attributes of temporary datatypes

By some operations, a temporary datatype is generated:Language Reference "Operational expressions":>The operands of an operation in a PL/I expression are converted, if necessary, to the same data type before the operation is performed. But this...
almost 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

COBOL working storage variable for use in the occurs value

One of the issues we see is having to compile programs when we have an abend due to a internal COBOL table overflow. It would be nice to be able to have a working storage variable used in the occurs value so that we could set up a table with those...
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Delivered

USER BUILD run conditioned to an external event

When a user build is started, a check is performed on the item. If the item has a RTC lock, the user build start only if the user build requester is the lock owner
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Delivered

Generate Java-/Heap-Dump from a running JVMServer

We need a way to request a JVM-System-Dump, Thread-Dump and/or Heap-Dump from a JVMServer via Console, like a CEMT-Command, CICS-Explorer or CPSM. It's necessary to request via command a Thread-Dump, a Heap-Dump or a Java-Core-Dump separately. Cur...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 12 Delivered

extend CICSPA report column width

Customer wants to have wider report column not to use exponential value to express very large numbers.
over 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Log F/A of records with STDAUT bits in use

We would like an update to CRUISE and RECOUP to report file addresses that have STDAUT reserved bits in use. Perhaps they could be reported as a software error (similar to what was done for Encryption with RECOUP) or maybe written to a file in the...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

IGYCB7310

I noticed that the warning message, IGYCB7310-W, appears after all other messages in the COBOL V5.1 compiler sysout, and is not included in the first Messages Total line and is located after the program statistics instead of with all of the other ...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Enhance built-in date/time formats to include the SMF date format

SMF date format - byte packed date format Definition of the format used to represent dates (OCYYDDD+) The numbers are written in +ve byte packed decimal. '0C' is the number of centuries since 1900. All dates in the 21st century have '01'. 'YY' is ...
almost 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Provide audit tracking within ITOM

Create an auditing process for ITOM config tables to keep track of changes to the admin objects (selectors, archive attributes, report defs, etc. i.e. whatever you can unload with UBU). Enable by creating triggers on the admin tables to record the...
over 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

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