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Request for JOB analysis function extention

A function to display a document describing the specification of the job corresponding to the selected job.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Request for TWS analysis function extention

Ability to display the IWS job flow that ran on the specified date.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Scan JCL residing on the Test LPAR against the Prod LPAR

Production JCL is being modified on the Test LPAR. The need is to scan the JCL for errors which requires networking a copy of the JCL to the Production LPAR, scanning the JCL, and send the syntax checks to the user. We have datasets existing in Pr...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

G?n?ration de niveau 88

Bonjour, Pour am?liorer la lisibilit? des programmes Cobol, serait-il possible de g?n?rer des niveaux 88 (condition) ? partir des Rubriques d?clar?es au Dictionnaire ? Pour cela, il faudrait pouvoir associer au niveau -D des Rurbriques, pour chaqu...
over 12 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Not under consideration

Map Generator of IDZ 14.1 for PLI truncates comments of fields used to build PLI structure names

IDZ 14.1 for PLI - Map Generator Comments of Fields in BMS Sourcefiles are truncated to 7 chars. Therefore structure names are limited to 7 chars. BMS Source-Files that have been used on z/OS to generate PLI Includes with SDF-II on z/OS. We know, ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

RDZ JES job filtering

extend the capabilities in RDz to provide a JES filter that supports the functionality currently found in SDSF. DA OJOB is not supported and is often used to provide a current list of active jobs
over 12 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

Recognize SQLCA / SQLDA includes as standard DB2

PL1 SQLCA and SQLDA includes will automatically be resolved by the DB2 precompiler. ADDI build throws out warnings because it tries to find the corresponding include files (SQLCA/SQLDA) which are not needed for compiling the code.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

monitor the perfromance of programs in one task

Current, CICS create one performance monitor record for each task. User can't drill down into performance of each program used in this task. eg. the CPU time of each program in this task. Customer wants CICS write performance data for each program...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

add purgethresh for MXT queue

Add a new SIT that can control the queue length of transactions who are waiting for MXT like purgethresh in Tranclass.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Entreprise Cobol - Internal format for INDEX with offset and occurrence number

The internal storage format of an INDEX uses four bytes to store the offset relative to the beginning of the memory table (as long as the compiler generates 31-bit addressing code).We propose to use a storage format consisting of these four bytes ...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration