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PL/I compiler option LISTVIEW(SOURCE) support for code coverage

In Japan, there are many banking customer who are using PL/I. Such customer does not need to know a code coverage of inside PL/I macro, which is expanded at INCLUDE statement. Because many banking customer in Japan are using SAIL asset that is pro...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Code Coverage 2 Not under consideration

Do not invoke VPCEINIT during config refresh when no changes to UET have been done

Automatically skip the invocation of GDPS initialization exit VPCEINIT during an SA config refresh when no changes to UETs have been done.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

A "Replace All" action should be reverible with a single UNDO command

The Replace All actions treats each of its edits separately, so UNDO (Ctrl+Z) and REDO (Ctrl+Y) serially backs off or reapplies each edit. When the number of edits exceeds the size of the UNDO buffer, it becomes impossible to reverse a Replace All...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Configuration file for shared definitions

We would like to have the capability to specify a configuration file for all shared parameters (timeout, statistics..) between CTGs and another one for specific parameters (applid,port..)
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

PL/I to support multithreading under 64-bit

PL/I needs to support multithreading under 64-bit. Actually, when a multithreaded application executes a LP(64) PL/I program, it always works the first time, but afterward any subsequent call can fail if not run from the same thread. From the inve...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Required few more fields in MFViews & RI dependies table in SQL box for DB2 Enrichment

we could use this ADDI data to replace our Db2 ‘Enrichment’ process where we pull in additional dependant tables required because applications use certain views, or tables that have referential integrity (RI) defined. However, looking at the data ...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Compiler warning for active CICS HANDLE CONDITION on exit from procedure

If a procedure establishes a CICS HANDLE CONDITION but returns before doing an IGNORE CONDITION, the raising of a subsequent condition may result in an attempt to transfer control to the now inactive procedure. This leads to "unpredictable results...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

RSE idle timeout for edit and browse file as separate configuration (not as common config)

Hello, Recently we have changed the idle session time out to 15 minutes in IBM explorer for z/OS(RSED AQUA), this had resulted in problem for certain developers and analysts as it frequently timeout when they switch back and forth between IDE and ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

DB2 SQL run in eclipse are limited to eclipse buffers, add option to send output to file outside of eclipse.

When running a DB2 Script, there is a limit for output records. If the number is to high we get a warning. give us the ability, instead of a number of records limit allow us to give a file name out on our drive where the file will be written direc...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

DFHBRNSF data set counter

Customer feels CICS should automatically reset the counter and not require customers to take an outage of their region(s) because of message DFHBR0509 being issued, when the DFHBRNSF dataset counter is nearing its limit.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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