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Threadsafe for CICS shared data tables

We are unable to fully exploit threadsafe caoability within our CICS applications due to their utilization of shared data tables. We would like to see data tables be compatibile with threadsafe.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

vdisk as swapdisk (z/VM)

align with IBM z/VM recommendation to use vdisk as swapdisk for better performance.
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

Enterprise PL/I's LISTVIEW(SOURCE) Compile Option Support for taking code coverage in IDz

・Request for user interface improvement when conducting interactive debug using IBM Developer for z/OS Client In case of LISTVIEW(AFTERALL), debugging is done against source which include the output source text by PL/I preprocessorBecause our cust...
about 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Table-Sort in COBOL

We need the SORT TABLE-Statement in COBOL for in-memory-sorting.
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Enterprise COBOL should support zHyperLink

IBM's zHyperLink technology offers a way to radically improve the performance for I/O to VSAM files. Performance improvements of orders of magnitude are possible with zHyperLink. On a system with zHyperLink and with an otherwise qualifying environ...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

Confirmation pop-up for JES commands (HOLD, RELEASE, CANCEL and PURGE) passed on jobs not owned by the same USERID

Thankfully not often but we have some times users that CANCEL/PURGE jobs in mass in "Active Jobs" filter in JES and disconnect a lot of others users. For the need of "Show JCL" commands, we have left the parameter LIMIT_COMMANDS to "NOLIMIT" and t...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

Get rid of the priority macrostructures

To declare relative placements of blocks in screen programs, the user has to create special macrostructures that have priority over other macrostructures. The users consider ?priority macrostructures? as something hard to maintain, hard to underst...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE Enhanced Transformations

We have the need for greater flexibility in the transformations afforded by a/OS Connect EE v2.0. Also, we would like to express these, and all other Service creation elements, via GUI-based tooling,as opposed to the BAQ* and DFH* batch utilities.
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Remote Edit History View does not support Browse

The Remote Edit History View has an "Open" command in the context menu. This means that the selected file is always locked. It would make sense to add a "Browse" to the context menu in the same way as the Remote Systems View, so that the file to b...
11 months ago in z/OS Explorer 2 Delivered

Display a pop-up when MAXTHREADTASKS is near and user has an overly treatment

We experience some troubles with servers blocked in TIMEOUT. After some research, we realized that it's due to the fact that MAXTHREADTASKS is reached. When the limit is reached, there's no message and the server is down.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

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