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Add CARMA COMMENT box when adding a member is listas a required field

Add CARMA COMMENT box when adding a member is listas a required field. CARMA COMMENT box when adding a member is not listed as a required field. While doing any package related action like Add element/CAST CARMA Endevor required comments field as...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

REXX editor does not recognize any file type except .rxx and .rexx

REXX editor only works with the files that have .rex or .rexx file associations. If f.e. we want to define new file type under iDz configuration 'File Association' .rxc or .rexc (or any other name can be used under file association), REXX editor d...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Improve ability to define structures with power-of-2 size

When writing assembler code, it is often desirable or even necessary to define a structure with a length that is an integral power of 2. Reasons for such might be to avoid crossing a cache-line boundary; to be able to allocate an array of structur...
over 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

Cics Maven Plugin

I want a maven plugin witch gives my the same possibility like the liberty-maven-plugin for a hole cics region. Target for this all is a zospt image, so that i can configure a hole cics region based on a maven project.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

VS Code plugin for AD Analyze client

We have spent a lot of time trying to make AD Analyze client work with IDZ without any success. we then resorted to having a separate installation of AD analyze client with IBM Explorer.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Request to retain PSB and DBD COMMENTS in IMS Explorer toolset & IMS Catalog

Travelers needs both the IMS Explorer toolset and the IMS Catalog to retain PSB/DBD COMMENTS. We have historical tracking comments at the top of our PSBs and DBDs. The comments we want to keep are at the top. We don't care about the ones in the mi...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

Name the IMS IVP PCBs so they can be used with IMS Explorer

In order to use the IMS Explorer with the provided IMS IVP and Sample applications, all the PCBs must be named.They are currently not named, and we need to modify them ourselves.They need a simple update to name the PCBs for all users to be able t...
almost 3 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Db2 needs to use Security in connection

ADDI Db2 for zOS option does not allow the customer to use a secure connection to their mainframe via Db2 Connect
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Create a specific file for parser error in Software Analyzer

Currently in Software Analyzer, when you analyze an entire workspace made of several programs, all the cobol parser errors are retrieved in the .log in the workspace without any possibility to oriented those result in a specific file.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

EPLI V4.3 generated code compares badly to OS PL/I V2.3 generated code

In a very grey past, I was taught that the best way to initialize an array of structures was to use either array_of_struc(1) = '';array_of_struct(*) = array_of_struct(1); or, if this initialisation had to be done multiple times, to create a STATIC...
almost 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

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