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IBM AD cannot delete information of resources from repositories,? while using Project update and Make.

In environments not using AD Connector for Mainframe, deletion of resources can not be reflected from Build Client's command line interface. However, since daily resource reflection is automatically performed during daily processing, functions tha...

Improve COBOL 5 IPCS dump formatting

Using IPCS under COBOL 4.2 and earlier, it was relatively easy to locate a program's Working Storage. Under COBOL 5, this is a multi-step manual process. This request is to improve COBOL 5's IPCS dump formatting routine to make this easier for cus...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Missing/missplaced compiler message

In Cobol versions pre V5 the IGY compiler messages for discarded code are displayed:- in the listing directly after the affected Cobol statements for each discarded code parts - in the summary at the end of the output. With Cobol V5 only one messa...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Add TCP Service Information to the CICS Region and Connections Overview screens

We have a need to access/display the CICS TCP Service information at the individual CICS region level and at the CICSplex level in Omegamon for CICS. MRO, ISC and IPCONN information is already available in the CICS Region Overview and the CICS Con...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

User defined messages in Fault Analyzer IDz/Eclipse plug-in

There is a way to use user defined message explanations, abend code explanations and program descriptions in FAN under ISPF environment. Our shop been using IDz for some time already, and more and more people moving into this tooling now. Therefor...
over 1 year ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Add new "Process Option" to suppress returncode 28 of empty compare and/or search-for

Why we would like to be able to specify a new "Process Option" like EMPTYOK, so that SuperC, SuperCE, Search-For and Search-ForE (ISRSUPC) ends with returncode 0 instead of 28 in case of zero compare or zero search-for (e.g. after filtering).
almost 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 6 Delivered

Warn if creating Data Sets, that can't be used with ISPF Editor

Please add a warning when allocating a data set in remote systems view with a) LRECL>32760 for fixedb) LRECL > 32756 for variablec) BLKSIZE <> 0 or no exact multiple of LRECL for F / LRECL+4 for V
about 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 3 Delivered

Requesting ADABAS / Natural support in IMS

Request for ADABAS / Natural support in IMS
about 8 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Delivered

Cobol editor should prevent "save" action if data is entered after column 80

Customer is running RTC 602 and RDz 951. When a developer types Cobol source after column 80 with COBOL Editor, the save action and the RTC check-in/Deliver are permitted. When compiling with RTC, the translator ends in error with a truncation err...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

Have TOM leverage the z/OS parallel sysplex for high availability services

Resilient to infrastructure failure since an instance of TOM would run on all LPARs participating in highly available services
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered