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Add built-in support for Stacks and Queues

Modern languages have built-in support for data structures such as linked-list (singly, doubly, circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees (Binary, Red-Black, B, …), … It should support the following basic operations (for Stacks): - Push - Pop - Peek - Leng...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for linked-list (singly, doubly, circular, doubly-circular)

Modern languages have built-in support for data structures such as linked-list (singly, doubly, circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees (Binary, Red-Black, B, …), … It should support the following types: - Singly linked lists. - Doubly linked lists. - Ci...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Support "EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" in ZUnit

"EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" is a common syntax using in CICS, without the support we have a large portion of application team cannot adopt ZUnit.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

CALLEXIT for checking Call Parameter Usage

It would be good to have a kind of "Call-Exit", which is called every time the compiler see a CALL Subroutine, but also "Procedure Division" or ENTRY-Statement.So we could build a dictionary for all Calls, knowing which program calls which subprog...
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Logical grouping of z/os Connect server nodes into Tiers

Allow zCEE servers to be logically grouped into Tiers on AppD dashboards rather than single node per Tier - the same as for CICS regions.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Allow system shutdown phases in z/OS Proxy-managed systems

For GDPS managed systems, SA z/OS provides three distinct phases in the final shutdown processing that are defined using the special message id SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN message/user data policy item for the MVS Component entry type. This is not supported o...
about 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Planned for future release

TYPE56FA TLS Transaction Level Statistics Log Record does not show the actual Input Queue Time for PtP switches

The actual Transaction Input Queue Time can not be taken from TYPE56FA Log Records for PtP Messages processing.Field TPINUTC, that Customer wants to subtract from field TPSTARTU to get the Input Queue Time, is in fact the Timestamp when the first ...
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

Specified default Editor should be used for non extension data set

When a sequential data set that has no file extension is opened ona remote system, the zSystems LPEX Editor is used as defined application.Even when the zSystem Editor is defined as default editor for the filetype "*.*" (no extension), the extensi...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

IDz Host Connection Emulator - allow mapping of Insert key

Users of IDz on macOS have no way to toggle Insert mode using Host Connection Emulator, because Apple does not support the Insert key. There is no Insert key on Apple keyboards, and the operating system even hides the key event from external third...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Not under consideration

Preserve the contents of /etc/netview/snmp/persist/snmpapp.conf (if one exists) when an error occurs with SNMP TRAP command

The current format of the SNMPv3 EngineID used by NetView is random. It has been observed when the snmpapp.conf file is renamed or destroyed, a new file is created that contains a new EngineID value, which will cause problems with the destination ...
10 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

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