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    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...
    almost 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

    FA Eclipse: Show variable content in Cobol Source

    I want to see the contents of working-storage/linkage variables in the opened Cobol source (e.g. with mouseover / hover-over) when using the Eclipse plugin for Fault Analyzer and open the programs source code
    over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    IMS-Explorer is a very valuable tool. It should run under x86-Linux as well as under Windows

    Currently the IMS Explorer is installable under Windows. It should be installable and run under x86 Linux as well.
    almost 13 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

    Fault Analayzer should be able to provide abended file and records involved in the abend

    When I open a fault analyzer report for abended job I want to get the file name and all the bad records information which causes the abend.
    over 8 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Global Transaction Support needed for .NET ODBM Development

    We would like the .NET ODBM capability to be able to handle both LOCAL and GLOBAL transaction processing just as the JAVA IMS Universal Drivers offer both capabilities.
    about 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

    IMS Explorer - Security improvement

    The userid/pswd fields are exposed in cleartext when looking at the network traffic using a trace.This can be a serious security exposure, depending on the business and if the user use the same userid/pswd in production and development environments.
    over 7 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

    Have IDIS leave a re-usable ASID after it's stopped.

    Fault Analyzer's IDS STC leaves its ASID un-reusable. Modify IDIS to allow its address space to be reused.
    almost 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Add symbolic variable support to IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer

    Enhance IMS Explorer so Liberty type symbolic variables can be used as values in fields. For example (but not limited to) as value for an IMS datastore value in an Interaction Profile or a host name in a Connection Profile) This would facilitate t...
    almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Not under consideration

    Display of BLF-Data

    Interactive Analysis of a batch dump: Content of BLF data online shown in dump format. Info from compile listing is not used (as in Working-Storage).
    over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

    FA Eclipse: Divide Storage Areas into Working-Storage and Linkage

    Under Event details --> Event 1/2/3/... there is an item called "Storage Areas" - this should be divided for COBOL into Working-Storage and Linkage. This division should be shown in the outline view as well.
    over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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