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Flag -GO lines during software analysis

Would it be possible to flag any design entities that have -GO lines during Software Analysis? The -GO for DATPRO is no longer needed and it would be good to see a warning if that line of code is still there.
about 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Carriage control requirement

Update CICS TDQ carriage control to write more than once. Please refer to SR 36828,7TD,000 and 90093,7TD,000 for details.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

MRD to no longer log release data

MRD processing - We would like to leave MRD ON, however we are asking that a change to the process be implemented that would no longer store/write the releasing diagnostic data into the released file address. On option is to possibly write the log...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Filtres sur tables DB2

Dans la perspective "Donn?es" lorsqu'on applique un filtre sur une table DB2, on ne peut pas combiner des crit?res "ou" Exemple : filtre sur tables commen?ant par les caract?res TN ou TV
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

possibility to resolve copybooks during SCLM browse

When browsing a program in SCLM perspective the copybooks are not resolved by COBOL or LPEX editors. It works during edit and operation log shows an extra step:SYSLIB Retrieval Operation Copybook support has been introduced for edit with http://ww...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Seamless 64-bit Linux support for COBOL Importer

On Red Hat Linux 6.0 64-bit or newer, the COBOL importer code in IBM Integration Bus Toolkit does not work. Additional configuration is required to install RedHat libraries. Discussion with the Enterprise COBOL team reveals that this is a limitati...
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Configuration Mgr Plug-in BETA 52

The BETA 52 Configuration Mgr CICS Explorer Plug-in does not contain all the functionality of the ISPF interface. Specifically for a Chg Pkg, to "install" and "set approver" - these are not in the Plug-in and should be to complete the process. Tra...
about 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Configurable dynamic server selection for Client Application

Configurable dynamic server selection (round robin, fail-over, back-end of scalability) for Client applications using the ECI V1 API, including the ability to dynamically modify the routing policy.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

IMS LOCKMAX USERMOD to disallow or restrict the use of the value '0' and provide a min to max range for LOCKMAX values

Wellpoint needs a LOCKMAX parm usermod to allow us to restrict or disallow the use of the value '0' in BMP EXEC parms or in a PSBGEN. Also would like to have the option to specify a minimum and maximum range of values for LOCKMAX
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

Requirement to suspend the transaction when accessing named counter resource; instead current CICS region wait on QR TCB

Improve CICS access to Named Counter resource. Today the entire CICS region waits while one transaction access this resource using QR TCB. Customer request is to meanwhile suspend the transaction, releasing the QR TCB and giving chance to others t...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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