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Help identifying moves causing invalid numeric values

Different move statements can cause invalid numeric values to be stored in numbers.This will cause dumps when compiling with NUMPROC(PFD) and ZONEDATA(PFD). We would like the compiler to help the programmers identify these statements at compile ti...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

ZD&T Fixed/Term License Renewals are not clearly visible in LKC, nor are the licenses available until the day after the current/existing licenses expire.

The problems: 1) The renewal Sales Order shows in LKC, but simply says “No licenses available for this Order” with no indication that this will ever change. 2) There is guaranteed ZD&T License outage which will vary depending on the customer l...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Preserve the contents of /etc/netview/snmp/persist/snmpapp.conf (if one exists) when an error occurs with SNMP TRAP command

The current format of the SNMPv3 EngineID used by NetView is random. It has been observed when the snmpapp.conf file is renamed or destroyed, a new file is created that contains a new EngineID value, which will cause problems with the destination ...
10 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Conditional compilation variable to reflect status of ADV/NOADV compilation option

Hi, Depending on the ADV / NOADV compilation option chosen, the way of describing the record area of a report file is different: ADV option: the printer control character must not be described NOADV option: the printer control character must be ...
10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

Remove 32 bit files from zD&T Linux targets

These files are part of the distribution/installation on the ZD&T targets: /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/libMD5CHAP.so /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/PwdGenUtility /opt/safenet_sentinel/common...
10 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDz: Handling of unreachable code in CICS HANDLE

Hello IBM, IDz and Software Analyser recognize an "unreachable code" where in fact there is reachable code: EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND LABEL (ABBRUCH-DBCTL)NOHANDLEEND-EXEC The LABEL includes a section name (ABBRUCH-DBCTL) which is being marked as unr...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Logical grouping of z/os Connect server nodes into Tiers

Allow zCEE servers to be logically grouped into Tiers on AppD dashboards rather than single node per Tier - the same as for CICS regions.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

add SET SOURCE ON support for remote debug session

A customer tried to debug assembler with mulitple enty points . To stop at the different entry points in the green screen debugger we need to issue the command AT prog1 SET SOURCE ON PROG1 userid.LANGX(prgr2) where prog2 is the CSECT name
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

When health RESETZERO, stop flow of Transactions into Gateway. TS015557631

When transaction gateway about to shutdown; let the tasks in the gateway finish; then shutdown the gateway. RESETZERO not to allow just new connections to the gateway, but to allow no more transaction traffic. See Case: TS015557631
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Allow ZCDNV to set a configurable number of NVPs that would be displayed on Dump messages sent to prime cras console

As we increase the use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC), the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area is becoming increasingly important to our application developers to rapi...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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