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Debug Tool Load Module Analzyer to Identify Duplicate Modules

Provide a customizable option to display duplicates if desired
almost 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Want the Push to Client to work for version releases

Nationwide needs a mechanism to push RDz product updates out to clients. We used push to client to install RDz v8.5 when clients were running v8.0.3.2 and this worked great. We thought it would work as well when we went to v9, but were just notifi...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

COBOL facet : Make Skeleton id optional in Design Explorer view

Actually, in Design Explorer view, when displaying list of COBOL programs, the following elements are displayed : - the name of the program, - the name of its skeleton, - optionally the label (the short description of the program) - optionally the...
almost 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

In the COBOL editor, be able to put the cursor at any column on a line like in LPEX

Using the LPEX editor, while editing COBOL, the user can put the cursor at any column in a line by just clicking with the left mouse button at the position where the cursor has to be set. After that, the user can enter text that will be inserted f...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Allow DFHAPIN to work with HourGlass

If you use Hourglass and run with RENTPGM=NOPROTECT, you have to run member AGGAPINL in SAGGSAMP library to create a different copy of DFHAPIN. Now that IBM owns Hourglass, I am hoping this can be done a better way.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Exponentiation of 10 are incorrect

Our customer is in trouble that the exponentiation of 10 are incorrect.? ?Example? 10**-3 = 0.0009 instead of 0.0010 The simple exponentiation such as '10 ** n' wants to be right value. For example, before calculation, check whether base is 10 or ...
almost 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Utilisation d'un index standard dans les Structures d'un Etat

Reprise d'une demande faite pour Pacbase -------------------------------------------------------------------------------NUMERO............: 831128 ( CGI 1088 ) TYPE..............: V DEMANDE D'EVOLUTION ETAT..............: 01 EVENEMENT DECRIT, A DE...
almost 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Génération de Segment par micro-pattern WF en mode REDEFINES et format VARIABLE

Reprise demande faite pour Pacbase. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------NUMERO............: 831130 ( CGI 1090 ) TYPE..............: I DEMANDE D'INFORMATION ETAT..............: 01 EVENEMENT DECRIT, A DECLA...
almost 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Génération des accès multi-rows en mise à jour par micro-pattern SQL

Bonjour, L'op?rateur Langage Structur? Pacbase "SQL", et par voie de cons?quence le micro-pattern "SQL", ne permettent pas de g?rer / g?n?rer des acc?s multi-rows en mise ? jour : INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE... seul l'acc?s en lecture par CURSEUR est p...
almost 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Discontinue MVS getmains for NQ element areas when EDSA is depleted.

Currently, when ECDSA is depleted, NQ element areas are getmain'd from high private. This can ead to a situation, particularly when there is perhaps a rogue transaction in a loop, where instead of an SOS condition which can be remediated with dtim...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration