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MAT TRACE to indicate ACTION items

When running MAT TRACE, the BNH370I message is issued with disposition FAIL or PASS. It uses PASS when an evaluation item is matched, and for any actions taken. This can make it hard to determine the actions. I would like to see a disposition valu...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Delivered

Set the action for the disconnect button in remote debug CICS

We need another behaviour for the disconnect button while debugging cics-applications in remote debug. At the moment we cannot use the disconnect button with CICS-debugging. All our transactions are pseudo conversational and if a user hits the dis...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Improve UUID4 Performance

We are now generating hundreds of millions of GUIDs using the COBOOL UUID4 function. ANY performance improvements in the future will definitely be appreciated. I am a capacity planner and prior to recommending the function to the application teams...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Provide back-end data in Interceptor

provide back-end data like application (CICS, IMS, DB2) system, transaction/program for invoked services through the Interceptor mechanism
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

add support for system symbols to APA CS Extension

need support for system symbols to APA CS Extension
almost 3 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

SMPE usermod for Hourglass

The Hourglass product needs to zap the z/OS nucleus (IEANUC01) CSECT IEATSTCK in order to fully function. This is currently done with a zap and is a nuisance since the zap is done without SMPE support. This is problematic if further service is app...
over 7 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Delivered

Improved functions for LABEL Breakpoints for Debug Tool

This request is primarily for Enterprise COBOL, but applies to all the languages supported by Debug Tool. It initiated from the Common Wealth of Pennsylvania. Label breakpoints need to be presented to the user the same as statement breakpoints. Th...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Customer requires all runtime metrics collection components, data, logs, etc to be fixed to a single time zone

This aligns the collected results, logs and etc to time frames that align with the other tools, processes, etc in the enterprise. This is a blocker to adoption of RTMC in production.
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

New builtin IFTHENELSE

a new builtin IFTHENELSE(expr, truepart, falsepart) should evaluate the expr and returns the truepart or the falsepartthe returned datatype depends on the coded parts (e.g. bit, alphanumeric or numeric datatype) nested use of IFTHENELSE should be ...
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Create z/OS Project from Git Repo root

Currently you can create a Z/OS Project from the eGIT Repositories with a right-click on a sub-folder in a Git Repo. As some organizations have a multi-repo strategy, it should be possible to create the z/OS Project from the Git Repo Root folder.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Delivered