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Message when RUNMODE is reached.

I would find it pretty useful if SA would give out a message when a RUNMODE level is succesfully reached. Means, that if I change the current RUNMODE and all the affected applications are in the correspondent state, a success Message would be very...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Add DUMMY and * support to DD Statements in zUnit

I recently spoke with Suman Gopinath and William Alexander about this. We have many programs at my shop that use the DD SYSOUT=* or DD DUMMY functionality of JCL. We do this for assorted purposes, whether it is creating a report or just wanting to...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

IDz v16x RCE (HCE) should have option to transfer file similar to 3270 emulator

IDz v16x RCE (HCE) should have option to transfer file similar to 3270 emulator.IDz v16x RCE (HCE) should have option to transfer file similar to 3270 emulator. Regards. Ravindra
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 3 Not under consideration

ISPF ISRSUPC to permit FINDALL to work against individual PDS members

Add an MVS ISPF ISRSUPC/SuperC search option similar to FINDALL that works against discrete members of a PDS. ISRSUPC's FINDALL process option returns a positive match only if all SRCHFOR criteria are met. This works fine for a sequential file; ho...
about 6 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 3 Not under consideration

PL/1 Unit Tests

We want to unit test PL/1 moduls (also internal procedures). This would be possible by adding additional code to a module with a generator I wrote. The problem by doing this is that the source code tested would be not the same than the one deploye...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

z/OS 2.1 JCL-Variables GET/SET via COBOL Program

It would be nice, if a COBOL Program could set or get an JCL-Variable, because of exploiting the new z/OS V2.1 Variable Handling.This could bring some benefit for larger Batch-Applications with many Steps and Jobs.
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Record CICSPlex SM WLM routing decision to CICS SMF for post processing

CICSPlex SM Workload management should record routing algorithm decisions to SMF for post processing by products like CICS Performance Analyzer. In addition to having the capability to record routing decisions to SMF, customers should have the fle...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

ANALYZE command

The following restriction should be removed (excerpt from Debug Tool, Reference and Messages Version 11, Chapter 5, Debug Tool Commands): The ANALYZE command displays the process of evaluating an expression and the data attributes of any intermedi...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

PHASEIN Support for JAVA programs running under Liberty Profile

The versioning and alias processing options that are presently available for deploying new Liberty Profile JAVA bundles in CICS require changes to the pre-existing CICS RDO definitions, this is not something that is desired when promoting a new ve...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Empty PropertyGroup for Subprojects

When we drag and drop a PO Dataset from Remote Systems View into a zOS Sub Project, the Property Group changes to the Property Group of the Sub Project & we think that it should retain the properties of the PO-Datei and not be replaced by thos...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

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