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ABO Return Code

ABO ends a job with RC 8 (which means an ERROR ) if at least one module could not be optimized. Because it is more or less normal that ABO can not optimize each module it catches by the given directive a RC 4 (WARNING) should be sufficient. Sugges...
over 7 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 3 Delivered

CICS IA should support FILE control remote access information

RFE 17778 addresses the lack of remote file information in file control GLUEs.Customer needs this information in order to rationalize her CICS architecture. This implies to get the relationship between programs, files and the CICS regions owning t...
over 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

DSC member rename leaves orphaned member generations

rename of a pdse member generation 0 leaves orphaned generations -1, -2, -3 and so on.
over 7 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

ZONECHECK option in COBOL V5 retrofit into COBOL V4

At a SHARE session I found out that invalid coding for zoned decimal items was a problem for migrating to COBOL V5. Per the session, it appears that a new compiler option is being considered for COBOL V5 to insert code to identify these invalid de...
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

Leverage open source components from IBM image repository for RTMC

Please add the ability for the z/TPF Insights Dashboard Starter Kit to support Linux on Z configuration leveraging open source components from IBM image repository.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Delivered

PL/I - higher granularity for msg IBM3250I

The following message is critical:IBM3250I W DSNH030I DSNHANAL LINE 8526 COL 1 STATEMENT CONTAINS WRONG NUMBER OF "INTO" VARIABLES Other messages with the same message id are non-critical.We would like to have a specific message id for the above c...
almost 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

CICS MQ Bridge configuration

The CICS-MQ bridge should have more flexible configuration of a CICS user program name being invoked by DFHMQBP0/DFHMQBP3 - now a CICS user program name can be only sent as a part of message and there is no option for specifying the predefined CIC...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Provide tooling to migrate zConnect/IMS Mobile Feature Pack related artifacts from one enviroment to another

Add support for packaging, deploying and/or replicating zConnect and IMS Mobile Feature Pack related artifacts for IMS REST service configuration/implementation to different environments such as DEV,System Integration, Prod Acceptance, Prod and DR...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Delivered

SSRANGE with Suboptions MSG/ABD

Introduce SSRANGE with suboptions MSG/ABD for cobol V5.2.This option was introduced in COBOL version 6.1 with the APAR PI74933
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Need alleviation from the cost of dynamic linkage with active loadsets

When a program calls another program and the target program is in an active loadset, CCENBK routine CCEHOLDX is executed to chase the PAT chain and locate the correct version of the target program. This is the basic mechanism that allows dynamic l...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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