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    Seamless 64-bit Linux support for COBOL Importer

    On Red Hat Linux 6.0 64-bit or newer, the COBOL importer code in IBM Integration Bus Toolkit does not work. Additional configuration is required to install RedHat libraries. Discussion with the Enterprise COBOL team reveals that this is a limitati...
    about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    PERFORM with WHILE phrase

    A Perform While should be exactly as Perform Until except "the procedures referred to are performed while thecondition specified by the WHILE phrase is true"
    over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    Ask for OPEN I-O statement set the open input flag in SMF 62

    We need to make statistics on how files are used on our system. For that we use SMF record 62. But when the file is open in I-O in a Cobol Program, COBOL open the File In OUTPUT only, so the flag Input Processing in field SMF62MC1 remains to NO.We...
    over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

    Provide completion indicator and link to job output from Carma batch jobs

    At our company developers are used to submit all Endevor actions in the foreground (in ISPF) and wait until the action completes. Once the action has finished they are immediately taken to the Endevor output from this action so they can see the re...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

    All searching criteria should be listed as dropdowns in CARMA-Endevor

    RDz used to populate the Endevor stage as a dropdown in CARMA filter. However, the dropdown list is not 100% accurate since Endevor stage code is not unique (Endevor stage name is). IBM recently release a fix that make the Endevor stage a free-for...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

    Need a way to check the client plugin version in CARMA RAM

    We have customized our own CARMA panel to grey out some fields which we don't want developer to access. But we need a way to have checking on host side, such that it will reject the connection for all client without the particular CARMA plugin ins...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

    Make some BINARY data types immune to TRUNC compiler option

    Enterprise COBOL has four binary "USAGE"s. BINARY, COMP, COMP-4 and COMP-5.Compiler option TRUNC affects the code generated for these, except for COMP-5, which is always treated as COMP-5, whatever the setting of TRUNC.If I want to "divide by 10 a...
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    OPEN Operation Extensions

    Allow for additional processing to be associated with OPEN operations based on whether the file is OPEN as INPUT or OUTPUT.(Feature is not available for OPEN I/O or EXTEND.) The aim is to facilitate easier introduction of Headers and Trailers proc...
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Provide Language Environment support for JES symbol service

    A new facility in z/OS 2.1 is the JES Symbol Service (IAZSYMBL), which, among other things, allows an assembler program to obtain the value of JES system symbols SYS_CORR_CURRJOB, SYS_CORR_LASTJOB, and SYS_LASTJOBID after a task has submitted a jo...
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    RDz CARMA support long file name in Endevor

    RDz does not yet have support for CA Endevor long names, it can now only support up to 10 characters. However Endevor allow long file name since v7 in 2005. All the existing long file name element in Endevor cannot be interface with CARMA now.
    about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

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