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ZSDEA modifications to support FENCED OFF file pool support

ZSDEA Modifications - Allow file pool "FENCING OFF" or the ability to de-activate a range of ordinals without requiring RAMFIL DE-ACTIVATION updates to the FACE TABLE. IBM's RAMFIL parameter is used to indicate if a pool segment is going to be dea...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

IGY-Compiler-Messages are not summarized at the end of the SYSPRINT

In cobol-versions pre 5.1. all IGY-compliler-messages (info, warning, error, severe) are summarized at the end of the SYSPRINT-output . In Cobol 5.1.1 and above these messages are displayed anywhere and not always in one block.
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE - Support for Multiple Versions

z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit (3.0.60 - current version) along with z/OS Connect EE 3.0.24, doesn't support Multiple version Naming for IMS or CICS APIs created. Though there are different fields available for 'Name' and 'version', while generating ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ADDI - Secondary RACF ID

Currently the product does not support DB2 secondary authorization IDs
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

SMF types needed on TDS DB2 Tables

We need this smf types on TDS DB2 Tables. Could you please prepare fixtest ? SMF30PFR (CHANGED SERVICE CLASS of JOBS) Job service class association was modified by a system operator during job execution. SMF30SQT (JOBS WAITING INITIATOR) Time the ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Support multiple versions of DB2 bind

When we upgrade/apply mainteance to TOM, sometimes it requires running DB2 bind and backout is to rebind with old packages. It'll be helpful if TOM can support multiple versions of DB2 bind so we can run different maintenance levels with just STEP...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Promotion of Remote Syntax Check

We need a visibility enhancement for the Remote syntax check function in order for the developpers to see it fastly and use it more than what they are currently do.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 5 Future consideration

Display current and diagnostic data of BUSED/BLOG

Z/TPF System needs diagnostic tools to display and analyze the status of Globals @@BUSED and @@BLOG, as well as the ordinal data for each processor. This data is very useful during activities such as processor de-activations, planned outages, File...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Reconciliation between Listing line number and Source line number

We are in the process of deploying the implementation of a DevOps approach on the mainframe. In particular, we want to implement code coverage and unit test follow-ups (automated tests). Market tools, especially the SonarQube tool, work with the S...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

make JSON-builtin non UTF-8 compatible

Whenever we use the jsonGet* oder jsonPut* function we always have to convert it from or to EBCDIC(1148) to UTF-8(1208) as we store and send this structure in Db2 Tables and on MQ and we don't want to convert it at two different places.Therefore i...
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration