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Allow FILLER in structures, like COBOL does.

Please allow the keyword FILLER to be used in structures without having to name them so they are unique. Presently each field must have a unique field name. DECLARE 1 MYSTRUCTURE UNALIGNED, 2 FILLER1 CHAR(1) INIT('"'), 2 FIELD1 CHAR(10), 2 FILLER2...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Browing on sequencial file is taking lot of time.

Browsing the sequencial file is taking lot of time.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Use the source code editor without worrying about the purely technical PDP component.

"One of the strengths of IDE RPP-RTC-RDz is the historisation of the file, but it is just for see, not for come back to an old version." We can use historisation of the file to come back with a cobol program, but not with a rpp program, because of...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Install HOD 12 on zOS with tar files instead of Installation Manager

Customers are having much difficulty with Installation Manager on zOS. In the later versions of HOD 11, a non-SMPE package was made available where three tar files could be uploaded to the zOS host, then run shell script to extract the files, and ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Not under consideration

STR - Génération de "nom condition" (niveau 88) dans les appels de Segments (-CD, -CS, -W/F...)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------NUMERO............: 831115 ( CGI 1075 ) TYPE..............: V DEMANDE D'EVOLUTION ETAT..............: 01 EVENEMENT DECRIT, A DECLARER GRAVITE...........: N SEVERITE 1 (...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Breaking Points For the Last Session Gets Loaded in Debugger

The last session's breaking points are not getting loaded in the current session. However, for every new session, we have to make sure that on closing the last debugging session, all the breaking points in that last session should be deleted with ...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

PCOM FTP Client does not allow overwrite of an existing data set

If you try to overwrite or append a TSO data set using the FTP Client of PCOM you will get the message "MVS file transfer OverWrite/Append failed".
almost 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

There is no CICS API/SPI or command to delete the AID chain

Provide a CICS command that deletes all the AIDs lasting in the chain at once. The command SET TERMINAL(xxxx) CANCEL was used manually (see the use case) but the rate of incoming transaction were bigger than the velocity to delete the AIDs for all...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

New PPCP option to create dump reports without print headers and characters

TPF dump reports are formatted by STPP as a printable file with special print characters and a header on every page reminding the reader of the dump details and current page number.Most dumps today are too big to justify printing, the normal metho...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Support compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs without an active DB2 connection

Support compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs without an active DB2 connection
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

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