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Controlling overflow behaviour in z/OS Enterprise COBOL

Current COBOL behaviour when any kind of overflow occurs on a MOVE, COMPUTE, ADD, MULTIPLY statement, unless ON SIZE ERROR was specified, not including MOVE which doesn't accomodate ON SIZE ERROR directive - is to ignore and not handle the conditi...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Adding IBM Deep search with ChatGPT Codex (or IBM Coding Services) by AI driven Coding training and inference ( can be Human Supervised)

Using IBM Deep search with Coding services will train the AI System for Optimized code and it will make the software development more efficient in coding, testing, tracking and debugging. Also may be add the AI driven DevOps Orchestration
almost 2 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 11 Not under consideration

To do a LIST specifying the TIMEDEP as filter

For the "List" action in EQQYCAIN, there isn't any parameter to filter "time dependent"(TIMEDEP) jobs.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Check the value of SQLCODE after an EXEC SQL statement

IBM shipped out of box rules include a rule called EXEC SQL: Check the value of SQLCODE after an EXEC SQL statement for Cobol Application language.Where as PL/I does not have that rule.AS per suggestion from Steve Spirk this can be raised as an RFE
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Dataset reports, Dataset flow graph need to show the relationships between datasets when read and write is done through HOGAN

Currently the Dataset reports and Dataset flow graph is unable to show the relationships between dataset when the read and write is performed through Hogan activities. It is important for this feature to be enabled when read and write is performed...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Make CRUISE Startup more like ZUDFM INIT

We had a situation where automation must have been running behind, so an operator started a CRUISE Capture job and before it completed, automation started. So we had this sequence:START job (by functional entry twice) and before it completed, STAR...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

IDz Cobol editor to have ability to open files from copybook declaration

File declaration in the copybook is requested to be hyperlinked to allow easy and direct access to the output or input datasets.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

kill transactions based on elapsed time

Provide a way for IMS to automatically timeout transactions based on the total time elapsed from the transaction first being queued.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Drop warning message for EXCI programs

We have programmers who feel compelled to have their compiles complete with a zero return code. This became an issue when we upgraded from COBOL 4.2 to 6.2; the warning message was not issued with the old version. With the integrated translator, t...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Include MQ poison message handling in CICS

The JMS API uses the Backout Queue and Backout Queue Threshold defined in the queue for handling poison messages. This functionality would be very beneficial for handling poison messages in the CICS triggering facility.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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