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Allow attribute and status in Query commands.

It isn't possible to update attribute and staus in the same command, but this is also tru for Query command.Enabling the QUERY with both Attribute and Status as filter would ease the analysis.
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Enhance LIMIT parm in the CM report

When we ran CM report job(CCVBMAIN), the region went SOS. We then added the LIMIT parm but it only work if we have less number of CM records. Need a solution that CM should manage the CICS region memory and total number of CM records and finally g...
over 3 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

To flag warning during compilation if ODO variable not setup

To request for the compiler to flag situations where the ODO object variable in the linkage section is not properly set up.i.e. outside the bounds of integer-1 through integer-2
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

AD support data driven application

The core banking application is data-driven, which program execution flow is controlled dynamically by the configuration data store in DB2 table. Now AD static code scan facility can not support such use case.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

not to flag ASRA and take SVC dump when ON-unit is used to handle error condition in PL/1 program

Client uses ON-unit to handle error condition in their PL/1 CICS program like this:ON FIXEDOVERFLOW BEGIN; FIXED_OUT = 999999999999999; GO TO XX999RF_EXIT; END; CICS should not flag ASRA in the transaction and take SVC dump if user chooses to use ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enable to create executable programs in PDS

Requirement:Our customer requires to enable to create the programs in PDS strongly. Requested Completion Date:2014/03/31 Background:The program modules, which are compiled by Enterprise COBOL V5, should be reside in PDSE. Then our customer faces t...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

ZD&T should allow to keep the extracted files on local or NAS drive

ZD&T IDE tool set provide option to copy files in FTP storage but In our case we just copy the files in to different drive on the same server. If you could include the capabilities to copy to different local drive /NAS drive that would help us.
over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

zUnit: support for unit testing of nested programs

We have some Cobol programs in which nested programs are used. Unfortunately, this is not currently supported by zUnit.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Not under consideration

TS Queue - Logstash offload

In PL/1 we have the problem, that people make "put skip list/data)" and everything is spaming the CEEMSG. Now we want to introduce a PL/1 subroutine equal to log4j, Moving all the output to a TS-QUEUE. It would be great to have the possibility to ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Including program name and other information in the StartStop message information for Debug Tool for z/OS

As the developers adopt Debug Tool as their development tool for debugging applications and collecting code coverage information, it is important to have the accounting information about who is using the tool, as well as which programs they are wo...
over 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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