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Cobol editor should prevent "save" action if data is entered after column 80

Customer is running RTC 602 and RDz 951. When a developer types Cobol source after column 80 with COBOL Editor, the save action and the RTC check-in/Deliver are permitted. When compiling with RTC, the translator ends in error with a truncation err...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

Date/Times before 1582

All Date/Time routines (BIF) should support Date/Times below 15. October 1582 (day one in Lilian).So, the values (Lilian format) have to support minus numbers (seconds and days).The low limit may be '0001-01-01' as in DB2. PL/I have to support the...
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

CEDA EX LI(*) GR(ABCD) with CicsExplorer

CEDA EX LI(*) GR(ABCD) with CicsExplorer is not possible.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Possibilty to hide BADHEX messages in Audit logs

The possibility to hide the numerous BADHEX messages in audit.log
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RULES: (NO)LAXSTMT

(NO)LAXSTMT as a suboption of RULES: There may be maximum 1 statement per source (not PP) line.
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

High CPU in DFHXMAT when the current number of TCLASS'd tasks approaches 99,999.

Each task that is attached is assigned a task number even if it is just queued in a TRANCLASS. CICS uses just 99,999 task numbers. As the current number of attached tasks approaches 99,999, DFHXMAT spends much time on the attach of each task figur...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Provide the possibility to use system symbol definitions in the CAZCNFG0

There is a need to have system symbol definitions to ease the use in a complex z/OS environment with several PLEXes
about 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

DEPRECATE and DEPRECATENEXT for preprocessor

It would be nice to have DEPRECATE and DEPRECATENEXT also for variables or procedures generated by the preprocessor
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

New attribute JSONTRIM should be available

use of the attribute JSONTRIM on structure or char variable causes the jsonPUT functions to trim all char Elements normally no trim happens, trailing spaces will be created for each char variable with fix lengthactually only the usage of char vary...
about 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Omegamon z/OS - zIIP and IFL information

We would like to have the zIIP and IFL information on the Omegamon z/OS like this:- Percent of zIIP and IFL utilization (total and per LPAR- How many zIIP and IFL processors are active on system Z
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered