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Warnings founded when building the project COB (Case 9)

The new feature will avoid to think that the COBOL analyzer is not following the new rules of COBOL authorized by the compilers.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Externalize BPE TTE and TTVE

In IMS V13, IBM is providing macro HWSUSTAT, which has DSECTs HWSUSTAT and HWSLRCTR. From what I understand these DSECTs document the variable entry variable section of the HWS RCTR BPE external trace records (based on BPETRFM0 output). These DSEC...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 3 Not under consideration

ztpld clear out the KSA (keypiont staging area)

Customer is requesting that ztpld program load process program (cil0) always clear out the KSA (keypoint staging area). The reason for the change is that there was an old keypoint in the keypoint staging area when keypoints were being loaded .&nbs...
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

CICS Event Processing adapter write to USS file

Provide a CICS Event Processing adapter to write to USS files
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Mettre l'appel du micro-pattern SQL avec le code généré en F80

Suite au PMR 22950 999 706, il serait souhaitable que le micro-pattern *!SQL soit mis juste avant le code généré.
almost 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Allow Wildcarding of DB/Partition/SSID Names in DBRC Commands

Allow the use of wildcards in DBRC command statements such as, for example, LIST.DB DBD(IVP*) DBDS.
almost 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Rational Developer for System z should preserve member statistics (created/changed date) when COPY/PASTE done to another PDS.

When using Rational Developer for System z (RDz) to COPY member from one z/OS PDS and PASTE member into another z/OS PDS, ISPF statistics on member should be transferred as well. This should work like ISPF 3.3 does when copying member(s) from one ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Dramatically reduce java memory used per WSDL deployed in SGW

SGW 2.1 as well as 2.2 use a lot of Java heap space for each deployed wsdl. This memory used per wsdl has to be dramatically reduced to be able to deploy more than 2000 wsdls in a single SGW instance. Most of the memory seems to be consumed due to...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 3 Not under consideration

RDZ Syntaxcheck PLI-Programm in PLI-Editor

They might be able to add a setting to the Real Time Syntax Check Preferences so that you could set an option such as NOSYN and the parser would then not flag that statement.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDZ Syntaxcheck PLI-Programm in PLI-Editor

They might be able to add a setting to the Real Time Syntax Check Preferences so that you could set an option such as NOSYN and the parser would then not flag that statement.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration