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Chnage IMS DISPLAY command from TYPe 1 to TYPE 2

z/OS Debugger get MPP list with TYPE 1 display command but the command was prohibited to make large display for the list. Please change the display command from TYPE 1 to TYPE 2.
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhancement to the INITCHECK option to find all possible “used without being initialized” fields.

Description:INITCHECK currently only reports definite “used without being initialized” fields. Requesting an enhancement to the INITCHECK option to additionally report all possible “used without being initialized” fields i.e. something like a new ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

Provide the possibility to use system symbol definitions in the CAZCNFG0

There is a need to have system symbol definitions to ease the use in a complex z/OS environment with several PLEXes
almost 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Implement search dialog for -DR editor as it is already for -CP

If it could be possible to implement, for some pertinent editors (I think -DR of course but also -CE for Segment and Screen), Please implement a functionality of a search in the same way with the search implemented on -CP tab. Thanks.
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

Provide ZFILE function to display largest file system files and/or directories that can be sorted on zTPF

Provide a way to display file system usage that can be sorted. Currently ZFILE du does not support an option to sort output by file/directory size. The output can be very large and is difficult to manually scan for the largest files. We need funct...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Don't stop at entry to COBOL nested programs

For debugging of CICS transactions, using DTCN with LoadMod or CU specified, there should be an option so that the debugger does not automatically stop upon entry in to COBOL nested programs.This causes debugging of programs with nested programs t...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

High CPU in DFHXMAT when the current number of TCLASS'd tasks approaches 99,999.

Each task that is attached is assigned a task number even if it is just queued in a TRANCLASS. CICS uses just 99,999 task numbers. As the current number of attached tasks approaches 99,999, DFHXMAT spends much time on the attach of each task figur...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

DEPRECATE and DEPRECATENEXT for preprocessor

It would be nice to have DEPRECATE and DEPRECATENEXT also for variables or procedures generated by the preprocessor
almost 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

OPRMSG output to separate files

Customer Société Générale is using zD&T and OPRMSG to send commands to their z/OS system instances.However, output of each OPRMSG command is sent into a log file with all other output from MVS. Société Générale would like to have a separate fi...
almost 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Delivered

Allow headless build of APIs

Currently it is only possible to build an API (the .aar) within the elcipse IDE and z/OS Connect API Toolkit. We need the capability to build the .aar file from a CI/CD Pipeline.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

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