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/DISPLAY MODIFY ALL as a type-2 command

Provide a single, concise Type-2 command as an alternative to /DISPLAY MODIFY ALL to be incorporated as part of performing online change.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Only for testing purposes - do _not_reply! Thanks.

This RFE is only for testing purposes (notification doesn't work correctly). Do not replay on this RFE. Thanks.
almost 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

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

Command to display Regions with PWFI=N

Please provide an IMS command to easily list all regions/MPRs that are running based on PWFI=N or PWFI=Y.
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 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

Have the way / possibility (i.e. a Command) to verify online who / what is occupying the WKAP Pool

As a consequence of the fact Customer randomly suffers WKAP Pool shortage condition, which in the past even lead to an ABENDU0729 then corrected (Pmr 80256,830,758 - Fixed through Apar PK88043), and recently lead to message DFS2026 INSUFFICIENT ST...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Fix to long running CSLUSPOC

When I run a batch CSLUSPOC program with the following command, "EXPORT DEFN TARGET(RDDS) RDDSDSN(IMSVS.TEST.BATCH.RDDS) TYPE(PGM) + OPTION(ALLRSP)", against an IMS that has > 100,000 DRD resources, the job takes 40-50% of the CPU for a couple ...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

QUERY TIMESTAMP output order

The output order of the TimeStamp fields (TimeCreate, TimeUpdate, TimeAccess, TimeImport) is different for QUERY TRAN, QUERY PGM, QUERY DB (we don't use Fast Path, so I don't know about routing codes).QUERY TRAN NAME(xxxxxxxx) SHOW(TIMESTAMP) has ...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 4 Is a defect

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