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Restructure the Panel "Resume deployment Information"

Reorder/Resize the window sent when requesting the choice "Resume Deployment" for an image which did not start previously.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Count number of calls of csects/subroutine/entry point

It's important to know how often a csect / subroutine / entry point is called so that you can differenciate if you spend a long time in a single csect / subroutine / entry point or visited several times.
about 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

File Manager - Editor, Template Editor - adding 'End' to indicate field's ending position in a file

In File Manager, for a field you can see starting position, length but not ending position. We can see ending position on mainframe and this is very important, because we need to know where the field begins and where it ends. We are working with c...
about 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Export in Search View

In Remote Search View you can export the result to a file and there are columns showing information about found members.The same functionality would be nice for a loacal file search where the result view is very simpel. No columns and no export.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5+ - Compile OCCURS 0 TO 1 as OCCURS 0 TO UNBOUNDED

Before Cobol V5, we used "OCCURS 0 TO 1" in LINKAGE SECTION to manage tables whose size was not known at compile time.We propose that under the control of an option or compilation directive, the declarations "OCCURS 0 TO 1 DEPENDING ON" in LINKAGE...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale settings for AIX to minimize characters lost in translation to DB2 LUW

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale settings for AIX to minimize characters lost in translation to DB2 LUW
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add support for file processing exits and/or user defined file systems to IBM COBOL for AIX

Please enhance IBM COBOL for AIX to support file processing exits and/or user defined file systems/formats (e.g. implemented by Callable File Handlers like the ones for Micro Focus' ExtFH interface).
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

AD connect to Endevor

Need support engagement and documentation to set up AD connect from windows server based ADDI build configuration to zOS MF Endevor to auto/upload code libraries to not only ADDI server, but to any server or file share required. Ideally, this acti...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Mainframe style command-line argument linkage in an ASCII environment on AIX

Please provide a compiler option (or compiler patch) which enables COBOL main programs to receive command-line arguments as an ASCII character string that has a halfword prefix that contains the string length (z/OS mainframe COBOL like command-lin...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

Service Management Unite Automation and Z-ChatOps included in ZDT.

"Service Management Unite Automation" and "Z-ChatOps" are included with the following products (free of charge): IBM Z Service Management Suite IBM Z Service Automation Suite IBM Z Monitoring Suite IBM Z System Automation As ADCD system includes "...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration