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SMF extract sample ALC program

ITOM should have a sample program (like they do with exit UX01) that will extract ITOM SMF records. It should reside in ITOM SBJTSAMP library. This program (ALC) should work without any changes and to execute this sample, user should just providea...
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to the FCAP0008I output message

Hi,This enhancement request concerns the FCAP0008I output message. We would like to have the tape VSN included in the output message as well:FCAP0008I hh.mm.ss MOD 028A ON 650C TO TAPE xxxxxx ON 0C21 - STARTEDwhere xxxxxx=tape VSN. Thank you for y...
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add package declaration of entries to allow “non-unique” entry names in different PACKAGEs (including LIKE statement)

Given the simplified Use Case we face the problem that we need to code long entry names to make it unique: 1. We have a customer package with the name YCDSGET with a getBalance function to return the overall balance (sum as decimal float) of the g...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

copy query result into SQL script

in RDz, Data perspective, developer writes a SQL script cntaining for example a WHERE clause like WHERE aField = 'abc' and wants to copy 'abc' from the result of a query run previously. This result appears in the window SQL Result where two button...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Calling a webservice from java generated EGL on WAS throws webservice runtime exception

Calling a webservice from java generated EGL on WAS throws webservice runtime exception
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

RDZ Copy-Paste incomplete

You have a dataset with X'00' somewhere inside. You press CTRL-A to select everything, CTRL-C to copy everything and in a new dataset CTRL-V to paste everything. But only the beginning of the dataset is pasted. The last byte is the character just ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Improve trap condition on Debug for z/OS

Improve trap condition of task we want to debug by adding MQDATA field.Be able to use this field to specify data to check in MQDATA to begin debug session.
about 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add RULES(NOLAXFILEIO)

We want to avoid I/O-errors and -problems with the standard that user-defined files have to be explicitly opened before and closed after processing but not system-defined files: Therefore we would like to get a new RULES suboption such as [NO]LAXF...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Need a Symparm to reduce default (10x) initialization of Dynamic Array

When EGL is generated to COBOL a definition of Dynamic Array gets initialized by default 10 times. We would like to have a Symbolic Parameter (BuildDescriptor) to reduce this default initialization to less (ex. 1 time) to reduce memory consumption.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Move I/O Data Buffers Above the Line

Alter the DCB for standard I/O, reading from SMF input files, to place I/O buffers above the line via the macro DCBE versus DCB. Currently, all buffers are taken from below the line, which is a limited resource.
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration