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Remov the requirement to use the AMASPZAP service aid.

The HourGlass product uses the AMASPZAP service aid to provide modified product modules. This may not be possible by some clients who are restricted from using the Superzap tool.
about 2 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

AD can automatically pick up entry point programs and populate the reports and graphs

This RFE is related to case TS011387518. I ran a program flow graph of member CLZEUAD and this member calls a few SU members. Take SUQGSM3 as an example, this source file is renamed to TUQGSM3, and in this file the entry point of SUQGSM3 is define...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect sends wrong absolute time to CICS application when a date-time string field is converted to an absolute time

The opening of this Design Change and why is it useful, who would benefit from it, how should it work can be traced back to Case TS009967551 as requested by IBM ZCCEL3 Support.
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

DB2 SQL TYPE ROWSET FOR n ROWS

To facilitate the declaration of host-variables necessary for multirow access in DB2, I suggest the creation of a new SQL type dedicated to the creation (generation) of structures with OCCURS on elementary variables. SQL TYPE IS ROWSET FOR n ROWS ...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Make available additional source code information, used at compilation, in load module

We'd request that the location of the source code that was used during program compilation be made discoverable or available within the load module. For our purposes this would extend to COBOL, C/C++, PL/I, Assembler, Java. Our product team is req...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

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about 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

zUnit to open test Editor quicker

Our applications typically have many programs and big copys. This causes that opening the zUnit Test Editor is very slow. With a certain program it took more than 2 minutes when opening with IDz v15.0.5 client, and around 30 seconds with IDz v16 c...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Consideration of all IMS syntaxes

We found following an incident on the tool that some syntaxes, such as CEETLDI, in IMS calls were not supported by the tool. Only the CBLTLDI syntax was supported by the tool. I found this IBM documentation for information :https://www.ibm.com/sup...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Provide ISO 2014 COBOL Literal Enhancements

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSLANG13001; Voting Priority=2.8 +5=2 +4=5 +3=4 +2=11 +1=2 abstain=3 Priority=2.8 NOTE 1: This is a follow-up (possible replacement for): SSLNGC08006 2002 ISO COBOL - Enhanced literal continuation support ...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Allow IDz RSE Retrieved data sets function to display dataset aliases the way ISPF 3.4 does.

In ISPF a 3.4 dataset search will list aliases and datasets. In RDz and IDZ the alias is not listed, a 0 found is returned. We are still using RSE server version 8.5 so this may have been resolved in new RSE server.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

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