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    Create a CICS CBL statement to indicate a COBOL program is threadsafe

    Create a CBL statement that can be included in the COBOL source program that indicates the program is threadsafe. At compile/linked time the compiler/linkeditor should detect this CBL statement and indicate that the load module is threadsafe. If r...
    over 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    SYSDEBUG and the compile listing do not have the same information for APA to report the consistant CPU time

    Bank of America is complaining about the difference between the 2 reports produced in APA.They also say the results using the listing are correct because more code is generated at the END-PERFORM. The compile listing shows the correct results. The...
    over 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

    cannot debug big program with IBM COBOL for AIX

    For 32-bit applications, the debug format on AIX, stabstrings, uses a two byte field for storing line numbers. Therefore the line numbers that can be represented are 0 - 65535. Therefore source files with more than 65535 lines will cause difficult...
    about 13 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    Enable recording for Cobol VS II

    We are in a process to migrate from Cobol II to Enterprise Cobol and zVTP would be a great resource to help us test but we can't record using Cobol II, we've got an abend S0C4 during the recording.
    11 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    PLI record support for QSAM

    Currently the QSAM support does apply only for Cobol, we'd like to see this feature also available on PLI.
    11 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Show differences in Runner result view in user friendly way

    In many cases the difference in result shows hexadecimal data in the Runner Results viewer The interpretation of the available information is very difficult Currently there seems to be a workaround via changing Test Result Format to "result deta...
    12 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    automatic recall of migrated datasets when using TAZ EDTz

    Previous product into - zUnit creates some dediated files on mainframe, but if those datasets get migrated, zUnit is not able to recall these datasets automatically. Can this be provided ?
    12 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Unit Testing: Filter option for displaying fields in the Test Case Editor

    In the Test Case Editor, all fields defined in the program and/or in the Copybook are displayed. Both the referenced and the unused fields are presented, which leads to the fact that with a compatible extension of Copybooks (and thus to a multipli...
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 1 Future consideration

    [Copy] Enterprise COBOL V6R4 - IGZPROUT - Add "SERVICE" information in report

    Hi, IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4 allows you to produce a report of all subroutines called by dynamic call. We would like the information introduced by the SERVICE compilation option to be included in the IGZPROUT report. This would meet one of our...
    over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Provide ISO 2014 COBOL Enhanced ROUNDING options

    Submitted By: 3100012QSB #57Submitted Date: 2016-06-14, Submitted By: Cheryl Watson
    over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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