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Be able to make session parameters changes

Would like to be able to change parms configured in a session with out updating every session in the Configured Session List
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Not under consideration

Disable CICS in PARMLIB member IFAPRDXX

We have a very big environment with several systems in each of ourr SYSPLEX. We have a business need to separate the kind of workload that we run on each LPAR and we decided to start their CICS environment only in one LPAR. To avoid that, by mista...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

RDz's COBOL Editor do not handle substrings correctly

We have the following scenario 01 TEXT PIC X(20). 01 CHAR PIC X(1). MOVE TEXT(1) TO CHAR. The MOVE statement is incorrect it SHOULD have beeen MOVE TEXT(1:1) TO CHAR The error was detected during the compileprocess, but should have been recognized...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz: You Can't unassociate a PDS member once associated to CARMA

RDz CARMA user can associate a PDS member/Element to CARMA but they do not have the ability to un-associate PDS member/element from CARMA.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

RDz does not allow copy with a function similar to ISPF "Replace like-named members" for PDS members.

Using RDz, the overwrite option not available for the member copy function when a user provides an alternate name and there is already a member with the alternate name existing in the PDS. They would like the same functionality as ISPF where it gi...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

PD Tools Code Coverage Plug - Name in the Code Coverage Report is not persistent

When you double click on the Code Coverage Report Generation line in the Debug Tool Code Coverage pane, you are presented a Code Coverage Report pane where you enter the name of the code coverage output data set. This name is not persistent. So, w...
over 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Compatability Scan when migrating to new COBOL versions

We would like to have a batch interface to RDz which could scan our Cobol Source Libraries for incompatablity scenarios. we would like this feature to be able to run as a batch job on the host, so no download is required, but can be done purly in ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

IMS catalog audit trail userid

IMS catalog audit trail SMF record 29-03 does not have end user userid. SMF record 29-03 has ODBM STC userid which is not useful. We need to know the end user who submitted DDL.
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 4 Not under consideration

Remote Resource API documentation

For the Remote Resource API there is currently a poor javadoc documentation and some incomplete samples available. We wish to have an improved separate documentation, about all interfaces and functionality which is available in the API and how it ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - empty SECTION and statement in SECTION without PARAGRAPH

We see unexpected behavior of the Cobol compiler when using SECTION in PROCEDURE DIVISION.This for the V4R2 and V6R2 versions. Case 1 When a SECTION is empty, SECTION declaration followed immediately by another SECTION declaration, the compiler is...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

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