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PL/I parser support for MACROs

PL/I parser issues warnings in the editor if there are MACROs within the INCLUDEs
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration

Delete Support for High Availability Option

The High Availability Option of IBM CL/SUPERSESSION should support the ability to push deletions of NAM and TDB database records across instances of Supersession.
over 11 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide new ADCD RSU (PTFs) monthly maintenance

ADCD provided with ZPDT (for partners) has RSU maintenance (i think a monthly maintenance). The installation of this maintenance is responsibility of the customer. The ADCD provided with ZDT is different to the ADCD provided with ZPDT, but i think...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Product usage reporting (IDZ, z/OS explorer, ..)

We would like to be able to track who is using what product (IDZ, z/OS Explorer, Data studio, CICS explorer, MQ explorer , ....).At least, we would like to know that someone is using an IDZ licence (or RDZ, ...)
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

RDZ copy host to client strips trailing blanks

RDZ copy host to client should keep trailing blanks. RDz/IDz has always done it this way. Some users can have an issue with this for data that needs to be processed in spreadsheets
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Need mechanism for recovering isolated CMAS without restart

The ability to:1) Recover an isolated CMAS without having to restart the entire CMAS address space.2) The ability to tune/configure the timeout interval that leads to CMAS isolation in order to avoid having these events occur.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Not under consideration

Add ability to perform actions in Aggregated Explorer Views

I am using the CICS Regions view in CICS Explorer for illustration but, to my knowledge, this applies to all Explorer aggregated views. With multiple CICS regions selected, performing a right click gives a selection list of actions that can be per...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Unreferenced Variables

When variables are defined in a program (and not in a copybook), as in :01 Used. 05 unused Pic x. 05 usedP1 pic x. The variable unused is not referenced but usedP1 is. We can see if they are not referenced in the program by looking Show In -> D...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

JAVA in CICS - SMF recording of user program/tranid/userid

The customer (FCA/Chrysler) would like to track CPU usage for Java programs running in CICS. From what I can tell the SMF 110 data is only collect for CJSA transactions that the Java programs run under.Does the SMF 110 data for CJSA have any other...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Generate FROM/INTO db2_view in a pacprogram from dataagregate -gg

The standards are to use the generation of SQL EXEC statements from the -gg of dataagregate. The purpose is also to specify the -gg "a minima", usually the WHERE clause. Work is underway to bring programs that do not use this generation back up to...
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

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