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5 missing EGL types for numeric

We are missing for following COBOL types, corresponding EGL types.Because of these missing types, we suffer performance loss in the generated COBOL. COBOL Types EGL typesPIC 9(3) National ?PIC S9(3)V9(2) National SIGN LEADING SEPARATE ?PIC S9(3)V9...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

In IBM Debugger for z/OS allow -qtrace option to collect debugger engine trace to include folder names with space

In Windows > Preferences > Run/Debug > Compiled Debug > IBM z/OS Debugger preferences, in the Additional command line options field, allow -qtrace option accept a folder name containing space.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

PWFI Regions Applications should not be terminated when processing a OLC PREPARE.

Currently when the OLC PREPARE Online Change phase is run all PWFI Regions are posted off the SUBQ6 and the Application Programs are terminated through SCQC . That change appears was introduced by old Apars PL55214 on DFSICLV0 for type1 /MODIFY Co...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

Indicate I/O from MFS Maps

Would like to see input an output indications from an IMS MFS Map
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Create CICS Control Element

Allow the Control Center running under ISPF to support date/time simulations for CICS regions.
almost 12 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Delay the commit of an IMS synchronous program switch target transaction until the original transaction performs the commit

IMS synchronous program switch can be used to synchronously call an IMS transaction from a different IMS application. This allows you to reuse existing functionality within new IMS applications without implementing it again or without copying the ...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Support for YYYDDD in date patterns

Please add support for the YYYDDD format in date patterns.
almost 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 Not under consideration

PLI Compiler support for x86 Linux platforms

IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for Development is an Eclipse based product that bundles the PLI importer functionality provided by RAD. We have a customer whose workstations are running Linux on the x86 architecture. They are unable to use our impo...
almost 12 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Change Debug Tool to allow the remote debugger (RDz) to allow valid Cobol command to MOVE SPACES to GROUP-ITEM

The Enterprise Cobol compiler (v4.2) allows setting the value of a group item as a standard COBOL statement, but RDz/Debug Tool does not allow it. It begins with a Working Storage definition like this: 01 WS-VARIABLE. 05 WS-ITEM1 PIC 9. 05 WS-ITEM...
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

SMF extract sample ALC program

ITOM should have a sample program (like they do with exit UX01) that will extract ITOM SMF records. It should reside in ITOM SBJTSAMP library. This program (ALC) should work without any changes and to execute this sample, user should just providea...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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