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Having an option limiting some messages of RULES(NOLAXPERF).

In COBOL V5 or V6 the messages issued by the compiler regarding the choice of NUMPROC and ZONEDATA options hang up programs to stay at compilation RC 4. These messages can not be removed by code enhancements/ corrections like the others messages i...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Make socket identifier available in the MQ client

This is a request to Make the socket identifier available in the MQ client for use by the customer . The customer needs a way to identify what the socket number is in use by which MQ Client
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

FA IDIHUSRM support wildcards in PROGDESC

Fault Analyser member IDIHUSRM should support wildcards for PROGDESC to that a mask can be used. Currently we have to add each program to IDIHUSRM with a unique PROGDESC. We want to be able to match on a wildcard to reduce the number of entries. e...
over 7 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add a way to capture read access to address 0x000000 in PL/I for AIX (i.e. RTCHECK / -qcheck Option equivalent)

Under AIX reading data from addresses starting at 0x00000000 is possible.(unexpected)Writing to those addresses is not possible (8094 condition as expected) Reading from NULL370/Mainframe-NULL380 0xFF000000 is not possible (as expected)Writing to ...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Exporting data from the Command Flow view for use in presentations

Provide a means of exporting data from the Command Flow view for use in presentations. We require that indentation to show link levels is preserved, so a graphical means of exporting is required e.g. PDF.
over 7 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Automatically handle an IPconn reset after ipconn becomes unusable

Automatically set an autoinstalled ip connection out of service, in order to reset after conditions described in message DFHIS1015 indicating that the ipconn is unusable.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

C compile listing Should be Recognized by Fault Analyzer

C compile listings stored in BNS Endevor libraries (generated by BNS Endevor C program processor) are not recognized by Fault analyzer as acceptable listing file.
over 7 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide JESJCL in Fault Analyzer Viewer

AA has JESJCL imbedded in the viewer, did not find this in FA
over 7 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Writing CICS EOD Statistics to a dynamically allocated DDNAME

Would like to write the CICS End-of- Day Statistics to a dynamically allocated DDNAME associated with the CICS region; similar to the way the STAT command writes to a dynamically allocated DDNAME (e.g. S0000001).
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Need capability to restore/recall a host archived file from RDz Remote System Explorer

Would like to have a 'Restore Archived File' action on the right-click drop-down menu when selecting a z/OS file which is archived (ie. dimmed out on RDz) with a other vendor product. The action should request a restore operation on the file and i...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration