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Support for CA JobTrac

AD to include support for CA Job Trac
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD Field expansion report not showing any PL/I members in the list

AD field expansion report only display COBOL members, not showing any PL/I members in the list. Please implement this feature for PL/I also.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V4R2 - new option ZONECHECK (documentation update)

Hi, I notice that the ZONECHECK option initially introduced with Enterprise COBOL V5R2, and deprecated in COBOL V6, made its appearance in COBOL V4R2. The ZONECHECK option is not described in the Cobol V4R2 reference manuals, either in PDF format ...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Build Client Retrieve Pause Function

Users want the ability to pause download/retrievals from the mainframe to resume later.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

PL/I compiler should yield the same results of program when optimization is on

ON ZERODIVIDE may not be triggered under certain circumstance.
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

PDS Compare feature

There is a feature in RDz to compare 2 PDS members, which is very helpful to identify the differences between the members. But no options to compare 2 complete PDS. This requires when working on enhancement or maintenance project, which has change...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Code Coverage should provide instruction level analysis capabilities

Code Coverage currently supports a source line view of code exection. However, there are multiple instances where it would be helpful to break down execution coverage at the instruction level.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Duplicate Java files being generated in the referenced projects

If EGL files for ?basic record' and ?sql record' are available in a separate project and is being referenced by one or more other projects, then the Java files corresponding to these EGL files are getting generated in all the referring projects in...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

LE support for z/OS Log Streams

Please provide an high level language facility to read and write z/OS log streams
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

TXSeries 8.2ff: Logging Task Number of CICSAS Process ID in CPLI.out

To aid in correlating various log files the format of TD Queue CPLI (written to file 'CPLI.out') needs to be amended: Instead / in addition of the cicsas process id (pid) the task number (EIBTASKN) would be more robust. 219 CICS_EMP_FID_PROCESSID ...
over 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Not under consideration