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change default representation of floating-point variables in assembler

If the value of a variable defined as D ( floating point) is very small - the monitor will display 0.0. If you change the representation to HEX you will see x'000000000000001C' which is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow relative GDGs as TDQUEUEs

Please allow the EXEC CICS CREATE TDQUEUE command to include a relative GDG indicator (eg. -1 or -2). The command translator flags DSNAME(xxx.xxx.xxx(-2)) as having too many parentheses. You may also want to extend this capability to the CSD file.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Message supression in CICS/PA

While running CICS Performance Analyzer reports, we are getting lots of messages for regions that we are not interested in. The messages are CPA0230I and CPA0359W. We don't want to see these messages for systems not being reported by CICS PA i.e n...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Support of Jumbo Frames and MTU Discover For zTPF

My client wishes to convert from MTU = 1492 to MTU - 8992 aka Jumbo Frames. Need zTPF to support a TCPIP packet size of 9000 by allowing the zTPF MTU setting to be increased from 3480 to 8992. Also required is the enablement/support of MTU Discovery.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Create endevor packages automaticlly pull in ccid and comments

When building a package in endevor, automatically pull in the ccid and description to the package from the element that I have selected. All that would need to be added is a check to see if there is a ccid on the element which is already in RDz, i...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

AOR/FOR handshake to obtain remote file attributes

This request is an addition to RFE 42407 (to which I've also added a comment. There should be a "handshake" between an AOR/FOR to permit AOR's to obtain needed operational paramaters for a remote file (such as RECORDSIZE, KEYLENGTH, etc) thus remo...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

All searching criteria should be listed as dropdowns in CARMA-Endevor

RDz used to populate the Endevor stage as a dropdown in CARMA filter. However, the dropdown list is not 100% accurate since Endevor stage code is not unique (Endevor stage name is). IBM recently release a fix that make the Endevor stage a free-for...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

CEDA allows installation of a TCPIPService or URIMap with an invalid certificate

Under CICS 670 and 680, if a certificate is added to the CICS keyring and the region using that keyring is NOT cycled nor issues the SSL REBUILD (available in 680 and later) command, CEDA allows for successful installation of a TCPIPService or URI...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Resource availability in CPSM with 3270 transactions.

CPSM has the ability to detect if a resource (transaction, file, etc...) as long as the transaction is non-terminal attached. For any terminal attached transaction CPSM does not have the ability to detect if the resource is available or not in the...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

We woul like more than 10 pickup syslibs

When specifying Compiler Options, and Additional Syslibs we would like to be able to specify more than 10 pickup syslibs. We need more than 10 for our installation.
almost 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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