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Message-driven scheduling of IMS BMP/JBP regions

Actually IMS allows no efficient processing of bulk workloads that are hitting the system at unpredictable points in time. When houndreds or thousands of messages for a specific IMS program have to be processed at a point in time batch processing ...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Support C/C++ (CPP)

Support the C/C++ (CPP) programming language
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Supply "Best Practices"-Code rules for PL/I

Ship some "best practices" rules for PL/I showing common mistakes / style issues.
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Show scope of a variable in variable usage

Show whether a variable is local or global (shared by multiple programs) in variable usage + allow filtering; allow easy information about which global variables a program accesses. Show "central variables" used by many programs.
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for ISPF Dialogue Manager

Support 'maps' written is ISPF Dialogue Manager
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow annotations everywhere

Allow annotations also for program-flow, flowchart, ...
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow regrouping of variable usage

Allow regrouping of variable usage like SQL usage.
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Show runtime data in (Job-)Callgraphs

Show runtime data (from SMF / monitoring tools) in graphs, such as:- Mean execution time- Number of executions- Number of ABENDs- ...Should be able to switch between "sources" for runtime data (such as production system 1, production system 2, tes...
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Drill-Down into complexity

Provide developers with guidance on which parts of a program increase its complexity score mostly (e.g. heatmap / color-coded scrollbar / ...) with tips on how to decrease complexity (e.g. "complexity is high because you are using too many IF-stat...
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

SQL-Usage for Subselect, JOIN, VIEWS, ...

Show SQL-Table / Field usage also for subselects, JOINs, VIEWs (accessing certain tables) and so one.
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration