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Duplicate module reporting

In and effort to displace PDSMAN, we need a batch and foreground process to report duplicate members for a list of concatenated libraries. Library options should include:a) Any set of concatenated librariesb) All libraries associated with SYSPROC,...
over 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 4 Delivered

zUnit - Add support for PL/I "or" as exclamation mark instead of default vertical sign

zUnit PL/I compile fails with ! translated as |zUnit with PL/I source does not support the exclamation mark as "or" in the code.When generating a testcase in PL/I from RDz the "or sign" is always generated as a vertical bar instead of an exclamati...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

(TPFUG) Support generating a compiler warning if iostream is included in a build

With GCC 7, including iostream results in a global object being instantiated regardless of whether it is actually used. This drives substantial (approx 5% measured) overhead at runtime. GCC 4.6 included a specific mod to defer instantiation until ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

API mapping enhanced mapping: multi-field functions

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include net-new fields from multi-field functions
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

"Toggle Comment" in the jcl editor

What I have expected - and what I need - was a function 'toggle comment' like it exists in the cobol editor. In this editor, it is bound to the same shortcut Ctrl+/ so I was a little bit puzzled and have mistaken 'Toggle Comment Continuation' with...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

ISO Dynamic Length elementary Items as defined in the ISO 2014 COBOL Standard

Add support for dynamic (variable) length elementary items as defined in the ISO 2014 COBOL Standard. These are similar to (and compatible with) DB2 VARCHAR or PL/I prefixed variable length data items. They also include support for null terminated...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

zUnit: Preprocessor integration support (for example SWT01 for Cobol)

We have a variety of Cobol programs implemented in SWT01. The scanner of zUnit cannot interpret the SWT01 statements and therefore the test case is aborted/failed already during the creation of the use case.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Delivered

zOSPT - Option to override the Domain and Tenant ENV variable

This request is to enhance the zOSPT product to accept the ZOSMF_DOMAIN and ZOSMF_TENANT ENV variables as overrides in the zOSPT Image "zosptfile" file and as additional parameter options for the "zospt run" command that can be submitted on the co...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 2 Delivered

Getting transaction rate in per second value

Hi Team, Recently, we have upgraded Omegamon/CICS from v5.3 to v5.5 and the change we are looking is, Transaction rate has been changed from per second to per minute. Is it possible to give users an option if they want the transaction rate report ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

GDPS "administrative" operation: throttle Cpu usage

we ask that GDPS throttle some specific activities (like CONFIG operations and Monitor2) that are considered less critical than the Freeze or HyperSwap.
about 5 years ago in GDPS 4 Delivered