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Enhance preprocessor support of pli-syntax-parser in RDz

Not all preprocessor-statements are recognized by the syntaxparser of the PLI-Editor in RDz, although theses Statements can be compiled and are valid.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Identify Code Affinities

We are in the middle of trying to carve out a large segment of work load and move it to another enterprise complex. The ability to identify affinities in the application (across all programs) would a useful features.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic resizing of IMS buffers

Actually a dynamic management is only possible for IMS database buffers, but this would be helpful for a lot of other buffers as well in the case you have defined upper limits for these buffers to prevent a z/OS system from storage problems caused...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 4 Not under consideration

EGL enabling Adapter support for Worklight

For EGL being the business language it would be good to have an EGL like interface to Worklight Mobile clients. This would be a good integration.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 5 Not under consideration

RSE filters - Offline datasets (Offline Volume in the zOS) should be included in 'Archived Data Sets' list

From 'My Data Sets' filter I select OFF 'Show Archived Data Sets'. I expect all my archived datasets disappear from the list. Majority of archived datasets disappears, but not all. Some, defined as 'offline' do not. These are the one that 'Offline...
over 11 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Not under consideration

Remove keyword ICLH from dumps

Remove keyword ICLD (CLH block management tables) from the dumps to reduce the size.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Optimize macro trace and function trace buffer allocation

Could IBM review the effect of trace buffer allocation on system performance?Currently both the macro trace and function traces are split between regular and extended buffers, so any update requires access to storage in two different cache lines.B...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Reduce compiler messages with the same ID and text for a line

Enterprise PL/I V5.2 issues too many compiler messages with the same ID and text for a line. Please see the attached file. It is an example code of issuing same messages for a line performing arithmetic operations of FIXED DEC using structure name...
almost 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Sparse loading of one single object

We would use sparse loading to load only one object. In the case of program ; we would load only cobol, design and pdp and not all the related objects .
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

HOD DPW - Provide Option to Specify Path for Customized CA files

Provide the ability to specify the CA store where the Host On-Demand Deployment Wizard will search for certificates received on a host session. The recommended circumvention of copying the certificate to where DPW will look for it requires adminis...
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration