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Avoid stopping at entry of a CICS program which is added in DTCN

We have applications in CICS which are implemented as short running transactions and the main program which is added in DTCN is called very often during a process. In this case it is not very comfortable to have a entry-breakpoint which you can't ...
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

IMS Recovery status when reading OLDS datasets

While IMS is in recovery/backout processing - we would like a message to be displayed when it is reading the IMS OLDS similiar to when it is reading the IMS SLDS to provide us confidence the recovery is moving along.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

RDz should show JESJCLIN

I am opening this RFE on behalf of CA TITRES (Jean-Olivier Leconte).Product: Rational Developer for System z (RDz).CA TITRES would like to be able to see JESJCLIN when using RDz JES as it can be seen from TSO.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Not under consideration

Formatting of code when tooling fails

The codeformatter for PL/I doesn't work if tooling fails.It would be nice if we could mark some lines and be able to format those.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Refactor for PL/I

There are no refactoring for PL/I.Unused variables and dead code would be very usefull.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Fault Analyzer Notification Exit

In lieu of the REXX exits for notifications, provide a panel in the product to allow changes to be more easily implemented.
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Define GPSB with EXPRESS=YES

To avoid PSBgen and ACBgen processes in an IMS/DC only environment when IOPCB's with EXPRESS=YES have to be defined.Customer uses of GPSB and, since GPSB are IMS generated and so to not require PSB/ACBgen, they are asking if GPSB capability could ...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

IMS TMRA Support to pass application name in IRM_APPL_NM field

Have the ability to pass the application ID in the IRM header so IMS Connect can validate the user's passticket using this field instead of the APPL parm in HWSCFGxx proclib member.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

AD compiler to evaluate conditions of Perform loops

TD Bank would like AD compiler to evaluate conditions of Perform loops. They can understand why AD determines the PERFORM D000-PROCESS statement as reachable.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

The ADDI - MFS Source was not picked up as impacted component

TD Bank is trying to use Field expansion report. However, the MFS Source was not picked up as impacted component. Case # TS003122936 has more details.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration