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Blockmode in IDz editors

In PL/I (and properbly Cobol) editors the blockmode-function is very slow if you select say 500-800 lines. If you pass about 1000 lines it will just hang IDz.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the CICS design to access SMSVSAM in parallel.

We'd like to propose the following CICS design changes:1) Have a completely separate TCB or a pool of TCBs to process only the QUIESCE and UNQUIESCE SEND and RECEIVE elements. This TCB or pool of TCBs should never be used for OPEN and CLOSE reques...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

ZDT Webtools server Export/Import Images

We request a new enhancement :Ability to export an image localized on a Webtool Server (web1) to another WebTool Server( WEB2).This request is motivated by : - The need to secure our images on multiple Server.- Several problem encounters during mi...
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Produce message for C:D waiting excessive amont of time for dataset allocation request

All Connect:Direct copy step will fail when it is waiting for a dataset allocation request to complete. This mostly will happen if dataset is migrated or is resided on tape. Produce a message for a specific process/dataset if allocation request ha...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Message in CTL region indicating that 64-bit log buffers have successfylly been enabled.

After the 64-bit log buffers (BUFSTOR=64) have been enabled there should be a message written in the CTL region indicating that the buffer has successfully been enabled in a similar way that is done for the FPBP64.It would be beneficial if the val...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

XML Generate not aware of CDATA section, was: case numer TS004007239

Handling of Data within a CDATA Section when generating XML is incorrect. The COBOL compiler starts to escape characters within a CDATA section when that section contains (valid) XML. According to the official XML standards, it should NOT modify A...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

SSRANGE with Suboptions

SSRANGE can test tables with one dimension. It's not able to test each row and column of a multi-dim-table. It would be nice to have an option with can test multi-dimensional tables.For example:SSRANGE(STD) is the same like SSRANGE in presenceSSRA...
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

IDz v16x RCE (HCE) should have option to transfer file similar to 3270 emulator

IDz v16x RCE (HCE) should have option to transfer file similar to 3270 emulator.IDz v16x RCE (HCE) should have option to transfer file similar to 3270 emulator. Regards. Ravindra
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 3 Not under consideration

Allow customiziation of the range of SPI command audit messages DFHAP1900

Beginning with CICS TS 5.1 you can enable auditing of CICS System programming commands (SPI). The only thing to initiate auditing for SPI-commands is activating the TD Queue CADS.But there always a number of well known tasks which are allowed to u...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cobol - New Reserved Words to reduce hard coding

My suggestion is Cobol should have two new reserved words containing the currently executing Section / Paragraph name i.e. CURRENT-SECTION / CURRENT-PARAGRAPH (both would have an implicit picture clause X(30). Typically this would be useful in err...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration