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IDZ : Make remote property groups support local copybook resolution.

In IDZ 15, for Cobol: You can set local folder for copybook resolution in a Remote Property Group. But these folder are in facted never used. Only PDS set in Remote Property Group are used. Local Property Group support local folder. The goal of th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Delivered

CICS could gather diagnostics information regarding TCPIP stack failures.

When TCPIP Stack has left the TCPIP SYSPLEX GROUP by consequence of a failure on the stack itself and do not prevent if of working for completely. On this case, CICS TCPIPServices, used for receiving IBM INTEGRATION BUS (or Message Broker) calls ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Change the way the Preprocessor works for PLI

The PL/I processors are working as designed in the product. But sometimes it takes more than 15(!) minutes in order to complete the work - this is for the daily work completely unacceptable. A feature would be needed to change the mechanism IDZ id...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Delivered

64 bit support in COBOL

We need 64 bit addressing capability with our COBOL application program executables.
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

enhanced IMS default DFSSPMxx for HIOP

Performance analysis of IMS pool usage by STRG trace and dump of controlregion reveals that requested HIOP buffersizes X'10000' and x'8148' for QCF are larger than largest buffersize in DFSSPMxx default for HIOP: 32768 decimal (see IMS system defi...
about 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Delivered

Optimization to check the Cross-Application boxes in AD Configuration Service Admin

We would like to have the possibility of checking the box to add Cross-application in projects at once (without going through all the projects). Or that the box is checked by default when creating the project. Or have a MS-DOS command line to auto...

Perform until exit

Now that COBOL finally has proper EXIT statements there should be a way to speciify an "infinite" loop, or rather a loop that has no explicit end condition but depends on the use of EXIT PERFORM (or EXIT PROGRAM, STOP RUN, GOBACK) to terminate the...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Delivered

Host On Demand License manager logs rotate.

The License manager for Host On Demand, running on WAS Liberty generates a log file for the license usage. It's required to have functions for logrotate making the file be generated daily so that afterwards the daily files can be archived. <use...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

Lift or remove limits of INLIST built-in function

The INLIST built-in function is limited to 63 values (64 arguments), please either lift that up to at least 127 values (128 arguments) or remove the limitation. That background is, that based on the new MAXRUNONIF compiler option of version 6.1, w...
about 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

String search does not work for special characters like single quote (and some other)

When trying to search for string f.e. PROGRAM search works fine. However if we would like to do search for 'PROGRAM' string search does not give any result. The same thing is when using regex search [\x27]PROGRAM[\x27]. This is important as someti...