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Add new warning message to prevent modification of variables with INONLY or NONASGN

Please add a new warning message like “Variable *variable name* declared as *declaration attribute* is passed as *argument attribute* and could be modified.” to prevent modification of variables with INONLY or NONASGN in the following 3 cases: - I...
about 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

CICS Explorer does not support RASGN definition

UBS is in preperation of usage CICS explorer in the future.In this context we found out, that RAGNDEF's including the MAPPING function are not supported by IBM CICS Explorer.For UBS AG RASGN defs are essential, because we manipulate different envi...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 8 Delivered

Remote file not found - show hint message

I open a remote cobol file and add a bookmark for it.Then I close the editor. Now I delete the file on the mainframe.When I try to open the deleted file by double clicking on the bookmark, the following exception is thrown in the logfile.See bookm...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 5 Delivered

CL/SuperSession user login details

Based on PMR TS002573070We have been ask by security team to deliver more tracking information of logged on users to our systems. A message in syslog like user xx logged on to yy at t t IP XX - userid yy - Supersession APPLID tt -Terminal ip - aaa...
about 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Processes running in parallel run forever

We currently have 195 AD projects with cross applications. If I do a make build for a maximum of 25 projects in parallel, then it very often happens that the builds abort with the following error:"========================== =BATCH MAKE ERROR FILE=...

About processing of multiple layout of host side response message with z/OS Connect (MQSP)

System: z/OS Connect EE (MQSP)Actor: Card members, non-members, merchant users(It is necessary to access backbone data which is a legacy application) Customers are requesting that legacy MQ applications are published and offered in API format usin...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

JMON: extra informations needed

In RDz, "Remote System Details" some extra informations available in SDSF DA should be added be added: . STEPNAME : to see what the job is currently doing . IO : a counter for I/O done at an instant t . CPU-TUME : to figure out what the actuel CPU...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

exclude DB2 columns from RULES(NOEVENPACK) messages in COBOL V6

COBOL for z/OS V6 RULES(NOEVENPACK) compiler option generates messages for data that are not prone to errors such as system variables (EIBDATE, SQL CODE...) and DB2 columns. Add a noew sub option to remove control for these items.
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

CICS DB2 query Interface (like DSNC) but SPI

Provide CICS SPI to list DB2 tasks threads from CICS, like DSNC transaction. to display thread / task information via program. DSNC transaction is 3270 only and would need to have program coding for a 3270 bridge type of processing; would prefer S...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 12 Delivered

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over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Delivered