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Raise a severe error if an unknown instruction is generated

If the Compiler/Optimizer generates an invalid unknown instruction (UNKWN), it have to raise a Severe Error. The assembly list shows unknown ?UNKWN? instructions: 000027 | ALRK r8,r7,r9 000027 | UNKWN r15,r3 000027 | UNKWN r8,r6 000027 | C r0,s.uw...
over 8 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 7 Not under consideration

Cobol Collision during migration by delta

We have a program rejected during migration by delta and just before we have the message 'Cobol collision found' for --assignGenerationProjectsAndFolders
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

HOD getHTMLParameter using Java Web Start

We integrate HOD JAVA applet in our user portal and we send parameters using the URL and the getHTMLParameter macro function to send variable data such as user/password to the Host session. Now, browsers will run JAVA no more and we want to do the...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

z/OS Explorer needs an IM local download for installs

z/OS Explorer needs a downloadable IM install without having to install the package utility.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Support UTF-EBCDIC in the B2B Parser for JSON and SOAP

Recently UTF-EBCDIC was added functionality for the B2B Parser which has been very helpful. We recently determined that JSON and SOAP was not included in that support. We would like JSON and SOAP to be included in the support included under the B2...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

RDz to ship a version of CDT matching its Eclipse base

RDz 9.5.1 comes with a preinstalled CDT version 8.1.100 while the CDT version for Eclipse Luna v4.4 is 8.6, see https://eclipse.org/cdt/downloads.php It will be better to ship the CDT version recommended on the CDT web site.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Redevelop CICS Auxiliary Trace Utility to write to a Logstream and to trace tasks at a more granular level.

While running an auxiliary trace to capture data to assist Threadsafe analysis for a transaction that typically performs some 30000-40000 DB2 calls we saw very high levels of IO that appeared to elongate the response times of the transaction fifty...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Make Available RDz ASTNode API outside of code review rules

When writing custom COBOL code review rules, the java class generated uses ASTNode API.This API enables to parse the COBOL program and identify each COBOL construct.Make this ASTNode API available outside of custom COBOL code rules to be readily a...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz Code Review Summary %

Custom cobol code review rules, can it produce a % (percentage) of how many anti patterns were found in the cobol code and based on % (say >70%), return different MVS return codes
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Sys Prog

There are no exclusion parms in LMA - so I have been asked to open a this RFE and request selection options.
over 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

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