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Need a way to inhibit and resume CARMA connection

We have Endevor maintenance task that need all users to leave Endevor, such that we can perform the batch job such as reorg, backup, etc. In ISPF we can do this by inhibit the Endevor panel, or even force users to logoff from TSO. With introdcing ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

Enhance CARMA version history view

The "CARMA version history" view should be enhanced to break down different fields into separate column for easier reference, rather than combined all into a single "Comment" column.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

Create a CICS CBL statement to indicate a COBOL program is threadsafe

Create a CBL statement that can be included in the COBOL source program that indicates the program is threadsafe. At compile/linked time the compiler/linkeditor should detect this CBL statement and indicate that the load module is threadsafe. If r...
over 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

SYSDEBUG and the compile listing do not have the same information for APA to report the consistant CPU time

Bank of America is complaining about the difference between the 2 reports produced in APA.They also say the results using the listing are correct because more code is generated at the END-PERFORM. The compile listing shows the correct results. The...
over 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Enable in RDz Enhanced Edit (Quick Edit) for CA Endevor to view to execute remote syntax check on sources.

Enable in Rational Developer for System z Enhanced Edit (Quick Edit) for CA Endevor to view to execute remote syntax check on sources. Currently, for Enhanced Edit (Quick Edit) & Remote Syntax check this functionality has not been implemented....
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

cannot debug big program with IBM COBOL for AIX

For 32-bit applications, the debug format on AIX, stabstrings, uses a two byte field for storing line numbers. Therefore the line numbers that can be represented are 0 - 65535. Therefore source files with more than 65535 lines will cause difficult...
about 13 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Support Show Dependencies directly in CARMA view

Support "Show dependencies" option directly in CARMA Respoistory context menu, without retrieve to z/OS proejct.
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

[Copy] Enterprise COBOL V6R4 - IGZPROUT - Add "SERVICE" information in report

Hi, IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4 allows you to produce a report of all subroutines called by dynamic call. We would like the information introduced by the SERVICE compilation option to be included in the IGZPROUT report. This would meet one of our...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Endevor/Carma support for userdata

Our host implementation of Endevor relies heavily on the Endevor USERDATA field stored with every version of the element in the Endevor MCF. We have used the newly introduce QuikEdit extensions to Display and Modify the Userdata. As a general rul...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Not under consideration

Integrating RDZ and RTC

Our Customer uses the RDZ for editing the files in MVS Mainframe and requested that integrated with RTC control and storage activities in SCM. We follow the guidance published in But we realize the following integration scenario:Since the moment y...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration