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ZMDES Clean Up after zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or zOLDR Delete

1. ZMDES Manage Deployment Descriptors Process requires multi-CPU/LPAR clean up after a zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or Delete. The other LPARS in the z/TPF Loosely Coupled Complex (LCC) generally do not have their tables updated until an IPL. This...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Is a defect

WUI "Active tasks" view. The previous selected data remain on the screen after a invalid selection.

On the view "Active tasks", after a previous selection, customer has informed an invalid value, e.g., in the field "Taskid". CPSM / WUI issued a error message informing the value is not valid, but the previous presented data still remain in the sc...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Is a defect

Enterprise Cobol V4/V6 - Defect - Error in mask for numeric-edited currency sign with 3 characters

There is an error in the generation of the mask that allows to edit a numeric value with both a currency symbol of more than one character, and a floating sign.At execution a part of currency symbol is lost. This concerns the Enterprise Cobol comp...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Is a defect

Cobol V6R2 - Set default value of undefined compilation variable to false (B'0')

The assignment of the default value B'1' to an undefined compilation-variable-name does not seem to be a good choice because it implicitly implies the inclusion of a text conditioned by this compilation-variable-name. The default value of an undef...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Is a defect

Bring IBM AD Source checks in Line with IBM Compilers

IBM AD used as analysis and cross reference tool. When adding source code some code is not added into the repository because it fails IBM AD syntax checking. All the code loaded is from production libraries and the code passed the IBM compilers al...

Improve Report Performance

On large applications the report process does not complete.

All Callgraphs

Provide a redraw in background option

Job Flow

Allow all components in a Job Flow to be opened in Browse.

Block selection not working in PDP Cobol editor for RPP 9.5.1

Using the PDP Cobol editor in RPP 9.5.1, the Block select copy/paste function does not work. I can type alt-shift-a which brings up the block selection box to copy a block of text, but when I copy to the clipboard, the entire line of code is copie...
almost 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Is a defect

-ge erroné non détecté lors de la migration

Contexte : post-migration base CEDI Segment NN03 dans *GFX, il existe des lignes de type T dans -le -ge. La zone description ne correspond pas à un texte. Dans RPP, un lien est créé qui ne correspond à rien et entraîne la création de Warnings "lie...
almost 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Is a defect