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ISPF ISRSUPC to permit FINDALL to work against individual PDS members

Add an MVS ISPF ISRSUPC/SuperC search option similar to FINDALL that works against discrete members of a PDS. ISRSUPC's FINDALL process option returns a positive match only if all SRCHFOR criteria are met. This works fine for a sequential file; ho...
over 6 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 3 Not under consideration

Provide Full BAS support within CICS Explorer

The WUI has features (i.e. BAS) that are required in the CICS Explorer to make it more robust and useful. The following are examples of those features: - RASGNDEF (Resource Assignment Definition) or facility to create, display, modify, and delete ...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Support resource in different groups in CSD parser

ADDI CSD parser to support CICS resource defined in different groups.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Make CICS Explorer "Managed Windows" View Scope Behaviour consistent with Regions View

CICS Explorer view Managed Regions shows the CPSM status of defined CICS regions in the CICS Plex with details such as whether connected, CPSM level and which CMAS they are connected to. The context of this view does not always change when selecti...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

COBOL - Support for COPYBOOKs conditional inclusion

Hi, We use IBM Enterprise COBOL V6, and we have taken advantage of conditional compilation to develop a framework of "adaptives" COPYBOOKs: conditional compilation variables are valued in the source code of the COBOL program; some are through DEFI...
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

SQL and XQuery Editor should "Insert spaces for tabs" as default

The COBOL and JCL Editor of IBM Developer for z/OS convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File. The SQL and XQuery Editor within IBM Devolper for z/OS does NOT convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Add DUMMY and * support to DD Statements in zUnit

I recently spoke with Suman Gopinath and William Alexander about this. We have many programs at my shop that use the DD SYSOUT=* or DD DUMMY functionality of JCL. We do this for assorted purposes, whether it is creating a report or just wanting to...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Simplify CPSM WLM tracing and externalize routing decisions

In a serviceability review for CPSM, I brought this up and it was suggested that it should be submitted as an RFE instead. Can we introduce some easier way of gathering documentation when customers ask 'why is a transaction routing this way?' As i...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

IDz Code Coverage Enhancement: Number of times a statement was executed

years ago there was a tool that was very similar to RDz Code Coverage. One thing it had that would be good to add to RDz code coverage would be a count of the number of times a statement was executed. This would be helpful in fine tuning if/then/e...
over 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add Member name information

IBM Application Discovery v5.0.4.2 onward Product is used for e.g. cross referencing usage of Programs and JCLs etc. to perform in depth analysis for change impact or in case of Operational issues. We would like to see a feature to select programs...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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