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ADDI: Recognition of an IMS database call that takes place in a home-grown interface

1. Our dynamic resolution algorithm does not support Pointers, therefore calls like the one below are not resolved:CALL CBLTDLI-ProcPointer USING Dummy-P03Dummy-P04Dummy-P05Dummy-P062. Our dynamic resolution mechanism does not support SET ... TO E...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

z/OS 2.1 JCL-Variables GET/SET via COBOL Program

It would be nice, if a COBOL Program could set or get an JCL-Variable, because of exploiting the new z/OS V2.1 Variable Handling.This could bring some benefit for larger Batch-Applications with many Steps and Jobs.
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

zPDT Licence Manager Installation

We are using zDNT environment for the testing & training purposes. We have token server, License Manager(LM) & zDNT instances & all are on AWS cloud VM. We have faced issue with LM connectivity. As per the IBM guidelines we have instal...
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under consideration

HOLDDATA for ADF products - Support FIXCAT and ERRSYSMODS reports

Add and update Enhanced HOLDDATA (http://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html) for all ADF FMIDs.Currently, each product must be checked individually: * Explorer for z/OS - http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27047906#311...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 2 Future consideration

Dynamically called programs as smf data

The cobol 6.4 runtime can deliver a report about the dynamically called programs. It would be nice if this information could also be exported as smf data, so that is would be more easy to run analysis about the usage of programs. Currently in smf ...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

FA Eclipse: Show variable content in Cobol Source

I want to see the contents of working-storage/linkage variables in the opened Cobol source (e.g. with mouseover / hover-over) when using the Eclipse plugin for Fault Analyzer and open the programs source code
almost 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

AD build Client - Decisions mechanism for PL/1 language

Support of Decisions mechanism for PL/1 language in Application Discovery Build Client.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
about 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Planned for future release

DTCN FORCE for choice of entries

we need a less restrictive DTCN FORCE command to make sure the user does not create a generic profile we just need a program name or a terminal , or a user id . So instead of DTCN FORCE PROG requiring always a program name we need something more r...
about 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

"CA-7 Job Triggering Flow" Show with SCHID =000

Requirement:Allow AD to show CA-7 Job Trigger Flows for SCHID=000 Issue:Currently AD does not allow this.A case was raised and closed with IBM L3 support responding with “By design, schedule 000 is not available for selection, as it is not a speci...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration