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Enterprise Cobol V5+ - Clarification of the VLR compilation option

The behavior of the VLR compilation option that appeared with Enterprise Cobol V5 could be clarified by indicating that:- VLR(COMPAT) checks the size of the read record against the "VARYING IN SIZE FROM min TO max" declaration of the FD clause,- V...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

API to merge code coverage results and export result in a documented format.

In RDz it is possible to select a number of code coverage files and see a merged report with the complete code coverage result from several program executions. It is also possible to export the result to the file system. A similar feature is neede...
about 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

PREPEND ('add before') option in the PUT CONTAINER command

Note : PREPEND = ' add (something) to the beginning of something else.' Opportunity : Currently CICS TS supports PUT CONTAINER with the APPEND option. This is extremely useful when concatenating data structures into a single Container - and is als...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Date-Time service interface mapping.

Opportunity : Currently z/OS Connect provides support for mapping for Date and Boolean elements. However; it does not provide support for Date-Time (as defined by OAS standards). The 'idea' is for Date-Time to be introduced an additional mapped el...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

RDz - allow severity code customization in Software Analyzer

Can we customize Severity Codes? Currently RDz supports Severe, Warning, and Recommendation. We want to create 5 different severity codes: Blocker, Critical, Major, Minor, Info
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Do not require ADMIN for Installation Manager and HOD install on z/OS

The installation of HOD 12 requires that the IBM Installation Manager be installed in ADMIN mode. Other products like WAS allow you to use USER or GROUP modes which are more secure. The requirements for ADMIN mode are that the user be defined as U...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

Pre-Screening of z/OS dataset search criteria

The ability to prescreen z/OS dataset search parameters so that incorrect or malformed or searches that violate a set of standards can be scanned for and STOPPED before ever being submitted to the z/OS Catalog Address Space is critical as once the...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

LMT Bypass function for critical console displays

HPE would like to request consideration of the feasibility of providing a function/feature which will enable the customer site to instruct zTPF to bypass LMT queueing of critical console output/displays which can play an instrumental role in monit...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Save session properties for HACP EE pages

Currently, in HACP EE for HTML based model pages do not support delta changes. With this feature, end-user can save customization done for sessions in HTML Pages.
over 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Delivered

Type ahead functionalities in HACP EE

Currently, in HACP EE we have to wait for the next screen to type.With this feature, users should be to type in next screen.
over 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Delivered

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