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Allow IMS/MFS/OLP(operator logical pagin) to page beyond 4096 screens

Unknown to most, there currently is a limit of 4096 screens that can be returned (IOPCB type output) using MFS OLP feature (Operator Logical Paging). We are currently hitting this limit in our software at several large telco clients. The limit is/...
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 3 Delivered

Microseconds in PL/I

All Date/Time routines (BIF) should support at least microseconds (or better). Actually it's just milliseconds.
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Cobol V5/6: Additional statistics about inlining

In RFE 78496 a compiler directive to control inlining is requested.Additional to this valid RFE request an inlining statistic would be helpful. If sections/paragraphs are large and called from several places, inlining duplicates code throughout th...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Code Coverage Report and expanded source need to be consistent with encoding for other modules ( as SonarQube supports only o

Code Coverage Report and expanded source need to be consistent with all other modules as SonarQube supports only one encoding at time e.
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Delivered

Modify HACPEE interaction with 3rd party PDF Generator

In HACPEE v2.1, it permits interacting with 3rd party SW tools to generate PDF files in the following way:-HACPEE is able to identify the LU3 printer name that has been passed through URL.-Whenever a given LU3 receives data, HACPEE generate the SP...
about 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Delivered

Creating symbolic maps from BMS maps with LANG=PLI in RDz.

We do have a lot of SDF II created BMS maps with LANG=PLI.Currently we do not have the possibility to create proper symbolicmaps from BMS maps with LANG=PLI in Rational Developer for System Z.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Support for INSTREAM DDs in the User Build function (RTC Integration Feature)

The User Build feature provided by the RTC Integration feature currently lacks support for INSTREAM DDs. As RTC itself supports INSTREAM DDs in their translators, it would be great to have that feature in the User Build too.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

FA: Display register's full content: all 64 bits

Modern Compilers (e.g. Enterprise Cobol V5.2) and modern assembler programs are using the full width of GPRs to do 64-bit interger arithmethic or by taking advantage of the high-word facility.After an abend, only the right half (low-word) of the r...
over 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

EGL - GET DIAGNOSTICS statement

We want support in EGL for the GET DIAGNOSTICS statement. EGL has the basic ROWSET processing, but doesn'n implement the GET DIAGNOSTICS support.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Implement Orient Database on Mainframe

Currently, IBM AD has the option of implementing the metadata data on z/OS (instead of on a Windows Server platform) in DB2 (instead of SQL Server). This allows the User to keep the various z/OS artifacts on the Mainframe. However, the "Orient Dat...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

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