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Find changed lines in LPEX EDITOR

LPEX EDITOR automatically flags changes lines with a purple mark on the left of the line.After making some changes to my program, I want to review all of them before saving the file.Is there a way to have a list of all the current changes, or at l...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

IMS JAVA to honor POSIX signaling

POSIX standards allow users to signal to processes. This signaling capability might be honored by the UNIX runtime itself or propagated to the middleware on top of the Unix implementation (or thread). Typically: USS kill -n is the used user-interf...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CEDF for MQ-Series API CALLs (GSE Requirement DBCICD98027)

The CEDF transaction only shows the parameters as a list of arguments for MQ-Series API calls.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Make available additional source code information, used at compilation, in load module

We'd request that the location of the source code that was used during program compilation be made discoverable or available within the load module. For our purposes this would extend to COBOL, C/C++, PL/I, Assembler, Java. Our product team is req...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Improve doc about CICS TS start up and shut down

Client feedback indicates that the documentation about CICS start up and shutdown is not clear and it occurs in multiple places in the Knowledge Center and is conflicting in these different places.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Day of week and Day of month support for ZSTIM

The TPF ZSTIM table should support additional functionality like "specific day of the week" or "specific day of the month". This was not that hard to implement and improves the capabilities of TPF's scheduler.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

ABEND parameter for single IMS when IRLM ABEND occurs.

We need IMS ABEND parameter for single IMS(non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS) when IRLM ABEND occurs. Also, We hope you to standardize specification method of ABEND parameter.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Not under consideration

DB2 SQL TYPE ROWSET FOR n ROWS

To facilitate the declaration of host-variables necessary for multirow access in DB2, I suggest the creation of a new SQL type dedicated to the creation (generation) of structures with OCCURS on elementary variables. SQL TYPE IS ROWSET FOR n ROWS ...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Consideration of all IMS syntaxes

We found following an incident on the tool that some syntaxes, such as CEETLDI, in IMS calls were not supported by the tool. Only the CBLTLDI syntax was supported by the tool. I found this IBM documentation for information :https://www.ibm.com/sup...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

IMS Recovery Expert - needs to work with uncatalogued datasets in IMS control region

This idea originates from IBM case # TS011260089. IBM told me to open an RFE which linked me to create an idea for IMS Recovery Solution Pack. " We had a discussion with our development team, we think it is possible to support not cataloged data s...
about 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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