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maloc enhancements

Improvements need to be make when working with the avl5 list as it deals with fragmentation . Plus additional data collection reports need to be made available to better detect and analysis the issue. In this case there was an application requesti...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

BYPASS for ZFCTB LOAD

There are times we may want to bypass the FCTB validation when using Norm State FCTB Load. It would be beneficial if we could load a FCTB in Norm when wanting to delete a pool type, for example.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Allow more than 9 break levels in Programming Patterns

We recently had reason to develop a program with more than 9 levels of control breaking. The source of the input was a DB2 cursor. We tried to use a group field, but that does not generate correctly when using an Organization of '2'. The group fie...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 7 Not under consideration

Add Plattform Scope to RACF Cloud Security

Add Plattform Scope to RACF Cloud Security for CLOUD.APPLICATION.**.PLATFORM.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Set prefix for IPIC termid rather than default "/"

We need à parameter to select the termid prefix for IPIC connection
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

RFE for header file cache optimization on C compiler

We would like to see the following implemented with the C compiler frontend just like it is for the C++ compiler frontend beginning with Xlc 12.1: -qxflag=dircache[,m[,n]] where m and n are optional * m is a integral prime number between 2 and 71 ...
over 11 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 5 Not under consideration

Data collection should support user message counters and a customizable weighted message calculation

• A vanilla object code version of offline DATAREAD should be shipped so that customers with no local mods do not have to compile the offline code. If customers can use the vanilla shipped DATAREAD they would not need a PL/1 compiler and could sav...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V4/V5/V6 - Conflicting options DYNAM and CICS("EXCI") is false

When using the CICS coprocessor to compile programs using the EXCI interface, option CICS("EXCI"), the compiler reports an error if the DYNAM option is used : IGYOS4020-W The "DYNAM" option was discarded due to conflict resolution option. The "CIC...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Limit the use of the ALL parameter for certain IMS type 2 commands.

Limit the use of the ALL parameter for certain IMS type 2 commands.
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 4 Not under consideration

Relative Date Offset

Hourglass currently supports relative year offset using Yxdd where x=P for plus and M for minus and dd= number of years to offset. Please add support for relative day offset.You could use something like Dxdddd where x=P or M and dddd is the number...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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