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SSRANGE have more granular suboption such as enabling checking to target (update) fields only

During runtime whenever COBOL code don't well handle for reference modification fields such as below it would cause serious storage overlay especially within CICS. WS-A PIC X(10)WS-B PIC X(20)WS-POS PIC S9(04) COMP MOVE WS-A TO WS-B (WS-POS:) Whil...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Job Log Monitoring Multi-line message support

The job log monitoring feature (INGJLM) currently supports only single line messages, meaning that only the first line of a mult-line message will be returned. All lines of a multi-line message should be returned as they are part of the same message.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Allow Search > Text > File function to be case insensitive

We direct our developers who use the COBOL and JCL edits to the Search > Text > File function when they are looking for an equivalent function to the LPEX Find All action. We occasionally run into issues because the Search > Text > Fil...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Allow the ability to replace Property Groups with Importing

When importing Property Groups, show the conflicting Property Groups unchecked in the list. If the user checks them. Overlay/replace the Property Group. The current scheme of having to delete a conflicting Property Group before being able to impor...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration

Job Notification enhancements

RDz developers have been waiting for years for a job completion notification. It was encouraging to see some movement on this request in v9.1.1. However, the passive nature of the notification is disappointing. MF developers are used to getting a ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Implement dynamic-capacity tables

Implement dynamic-capacity tables as defined by the COBOL 2014 standard (INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2014 [2014]).
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Free Source Format

The e-COBOL Compiler should follow the standard 2002 with the definition of free source format. It should be implemented how it was done in COBOL for AIX.- variable length up to 252 columns- existence of area A and area B (not standard-2002!!!)- s...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Support for Cobol Report Writer statements

Cobol Report Writer statements are not being parsed in ADDI. This is impacting the results when needing to check where variables are used. The variables used in report writer report is not shown as being used in the where used
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Record Generator for Java open source request

After opening a case to try to get documentation, none was found.
almost 4 years ago in Record Generator for Java 0 Future consideration

Hyperswap in DR Campus for a 4 Sites Solution

We are moving to a 4 Sites solution using MGM and we would like that this solution add the possibility to perform Hyperswap in the DR Campus.
about 6 years ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

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