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IDz code coverage_Ent PL/I compiler optimize option support

System: core banking systemActor: developers of core banking system applicationsMUFG bank is considering using IDz for its test of PL/I migration project to migrate PL/I compiler to the latest one (Ent PL/I v5.x). MUFG bank is using the PL/I compi...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Support for GSAM feature

Please see PMR for all details.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Pagination option in z/OS Connect

I have a CICS-COBOL code to return about 10000 records and it is getting time out and also it is not good way to send 10000 records in single shot. So would like to check the possibility of having pagination option to send the records in batches, ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow the creation of custom COBOL code quality rules for makros

COBOL code quality rules check only COBOL code. They do not check code generated by the preprocessor (rfe 77829). And it is not possible to create custom code quality rules to check the code that is replaced by the preprocessor. The custom makro c...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Create an API to add a quickfix to the COBOL editor

There are custom makros in the COBOL code. The preprocessor scanning the code finds a makro that is not used correctly. An easy fix is available. The user would expect a marking and a quickfix to correct the error. But at the moment (version 9.1) ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

BY NAME, Mis-Matched Level Numbers

A compiler warning should be issued when there is a level number mis-match on an assignment statement using BY NAME. Currently there is no compile-time notification that there is a problem. We only find out at runtime and only if data conditions e...
about 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Improve the usability/functionality of Control Center

Customer try to use control center to specify date/time at JOB level, however customer found some issues to use Control Center as follows; Issues to be improved; - same Jobname can be registered from the panel of 'Control properties: MVS Batch/STC...
over 9 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Permit cics mro session definition to have IOAREALEN > 32767, and/or, let session keep and reuse its HWM length TIOA

Issue: many additional cics freemains and getmains for mro session TIOAs are occurring, and burning cpu, after installing CICS TS 4.2. Reason: new CICS TS 4.2 code is appending an extra 600 bytes, presumably to track hops between regions, to many ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

DDL and ACBGEN equivalent BLDPSB=YES

Using ACBGEN, if we want to make segment level change such as key length change, we use BUILD DBD=xxxxxxxx,BLDPSB=YES. This builds DBD and all the PSBs that use the DBD that we want to change. With DDL, I understand that we can use ALTER to make s...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS INQUIRE USERID

Can I have an EXEC CICS INQUIRE USERID function please?I simply want to get a list of users who are currently logged on to a CICS region.... I'm not interested in any attributes about the user (though I guess it might be nice if there was a way to...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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