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New builtin to replace ''

Initializing large structures, especially in procedures that are called many times, using '' is something that should rightly be frowned upon, and wherever possible, such initialisations should be done only once, saving the initialised structure i...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Provide open include / copybook on preprocessed files

For customers with heavy usage of macros, IDZ provides the option to use the preprocessor integration feature to enable the editor tooling. When a customer processes the file and also resolves the includes / copybooks, the developer misses the fea...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Non-display of IBM transactions/programs in CICS Explorer & RD/z (SHARE requirement SSCICS12003)

Provide a check box in CICS Explorer that would allow IBM supplied CICS transactions and programs to NOT show in the appropriate tabs. Looking at programs with CICS Explorer and RD/z shows a "wealth" of IBM provided transactions and programs (whic...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Global ENQ's Wait for a Cics Resource Dispatch Philosophy to be redesigned

To day when an Enqueue is wanted for a Resource between Cics Regions or LPARS, that is CEDA definition with ENQScope other than blank.ENQScope : XXXX, and ends up enq GRS ENQS. It can end up in, that one Cics Region can monopolize transactions hav...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

IDz MVS filter should allow to create filter having first qualifier as * in dataset names similar to 3270?

IDz MVS filter should allow to create filter having first qualifier as * in dataset names similar to 3270? This would be useful to display say the first 10 entries. Mainframe 3270 screen allows wildcard for first level qualifier , why IDz it is no...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

AD Cross Application Service should be enabled for DB2 on z/OS

ADDI has the capability to analyze Cross Applications. Unfortunately this feature is not supported for DB2 on z/OS. We would like to have the feature implemented for DB2 on z/OS as well.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Implement dynamic-capacity tables

Implement dynamic-capacity tables as defined by the COBOL 2014 standard (INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2014 [2014]).
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Missing Data Capture Exit Support for IMS Open Database Access

Updates to IMS databases via Open database access do not trigger the database capture exit routines.
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect Headers needed to pass a Security scan

We need the following headers added to the Response XML for zOS Connect (these are the Secure scan findings). Similar to how they were added for the CICS hosted services. issue name-Missing "X-Content-Type-Options" header (Vul count-1)cause:: It i...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

New extended mnemonics needed for branches/jumps following TMLL and friends

New extended mnemonics are needed for "branch/jump [not]mixed" instructions to be used following the newer Test Under Mask instructions. The older TM instruction never sets CC=2, so the older branch/jump [not]mixed mnemonics (JM, JNM and similar) ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 2 Not under consideration

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