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Leave out common code from Code Coverage

Provide the ability to identify code that should not be included in the calculated statistics for Code Coverage. In our case, common code is brought into the application program via a copy book.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the looping catastrophic monitor

The looping catastrophic monitor aborts restart after recovery log processing in restart. This is before tape restart and IPC restart. Although it's likely that a looping catastrophic is the same dump, aborting before tape restarts means the last ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add EXCI command level interface support for 64 bits PL/1 programs

When a PL/1 batch program is compiled with the CICS('EXCI') option, EXEC CICS statements are translated into calls to DFHXCIE by the Cics Integrated Translator, whatever the PL/1 LP compile option. When LP32 is in effect, this is fine as DHFXCIE i...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Set up Decision in batch

Currently, you can only manually add Decision in Build Client one by one, when you have large volume of decisions to add, there is no easier way to get these setup than using the dialog in the Build Client.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Field Impact Analysis to exclude dead code from report

Impact Analysis to exclude dead code from report as dead code is non-executable and may lead to confusion.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

To allow using wild cards in Extensibility JSON definition

Client has over 3500 IO-Modules. It would indeed become a large JSON file, and even if there is no maintenance, meaning once created these entries do not change, it's still going to be hard to work with such a file.Therefore please consider enhanc...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

add Project name, Package name and your versions on COBOL and JAVA Source

when the COBOL and JAVA is generated from the EGL, add comment in the source of the project, package, version and date/time of the created of the EGL source location of the program and all function.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Add two system variables to know the program and function names

Would be helpful if we had the EGL language system variable to get the program name and function name to which the code is currently running. Name exemple: sysVar.isProgram and sysVar.isFunction.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Need option to suppress selected recoup messages

DXC has opened a few PMRs (64053, 91012, and 72575) in the past to resolve the issue with TOS consoles falling back because TOS can't keep up with the high volume of recoup status messages. IBM did provide a software patch to prevent losing the co...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

REWIND Command

When repeatedly reading a dataset, the ability to reposition to the first record in the dataset is desirable over repeatedly closing and opening the dataset. REWIND is a FORTRAN V2.6 command. I don't care what the command is called when implemente...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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