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HCE keyboard setup/mapping

Add a setting so that we can modify the keyaboard mapping more than exsiting today. For example "Attn", "Esc", "Enter", "New line" and more.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

new suppress prefix

The compiler has a lot of useful informations and warnings.Some of this couldn't be eliminated at time - therefore the message list get longer and longer - the risk to overlook a new message increase.As developer I want to accept a message for a s...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Improve ability to define structures with power-of-2 size

When writing assembler code, it is often desirable or even necessary to define a structure with a length that is an integral power of 2. Reasons for such might be to avoid crossing a cache-line boundary; to be able to allocate an array of structur...
about 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

Ability to customize AD report/graphs selection

In the Analyze Client, there are a number of reports that our developers would never use (example: ADABAS reports) that always appear at the top of the list.It would be nice to be able to order that list and/or hide items on the list so that the r...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

AD to provide support for REXX

Provide support for REXX at the same level as COBOL and Pl/I.
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Enhance AD to be able to parse and perform source analysis on Systematics Core Banking proprietary application

The Systematics Core Banking Solution offers end-to-end solutions for architecture, customer information (Relationship Manager), deposits (IMPACS & Savings Time), lending (Advanced Lending Solution Servicing Manager), and financial and managem...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Define a new HATS variable which will contain the highlighted text

Opening a file in an Editor, we would want to get the value of the highlighted text. For example, in the JCL editor, highlight one data set name, then with a right click this would pull in that data set name to an action.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Request to retain PSB and DBD COMMENTS in IMS Explorer toolset & IMS Catalog

Travelers needs both the IMS Explorer toolset and the IMS Catalog to retain PSB/DBD COMMENTS. We have historical tracking comments at the top of our PSBs and DBDs. The comments we want to keep are at the top. We don't care about the ones in the mi...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

PDSE support for IMS (Steplib)

Currently IMS does not fully support PDSEs outside of MODBLKS, PGMLIB, SMPLTS, and SDFSJLIB. However the direction of travel for other Mainframe Components seems to be to move from PDS to PDSE with IMS not falling in line with this. This causes is...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

EPLI V4.3 generated code compares badly to OS PL/I V2.3 generated code

In a very grey past, I was taught that the best way to initialize an array of structures was to use either array_of_struc(1) = '';array_of_struct(*) = array_of_struct(1); or, if this initialisation had to be done multiple times, to create a STATIC...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

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