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Add information messages to support DRY principle (Don't repeat yourself)

According to the DRY principle (Don't repeat yourself *) programmers should avoid or reduce redundancy in an entire program or business application. We think that the compiler and/or optimizer could detect such redundancy in a single source and wo...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

AD Parser support for SQL comment line

Working on an ADDI opportunity where client has large number of SQL comment lines embedded in SQL statements. The AD parser currently does not recognize these SQL comment lines and hence resulted in parser errors and no resolution
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CICS - ICSF possibility to access Crypto labels for selected programs only

We need a way to permit access to Crypto labels only for selected programs . This method is already available for DATASET resource with the option 'when program' .
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add command for changing retention period for all selected data in one step.

Our customer like to have a command for the change of the retention period of all selected data in one step . Customer will have – when in production – up to 3000 datasets which may be necessary to change the retntion period. Manually this would t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - NUMCHECK(ABD): Generate the control code in the same instructions block

Whatever the chosen optimization level, the NUMCHECK(ABD) compilation option generates a part of the control code at the end of the program code, (the numeric class test is performed at the location of the Cobol instruction, but the call to the ab...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enhance EXEC CICS ASSIGN with ASRABEAR option

The EXEC CICS API for ASSIGN returns many data items related to program checks (e.g. ASRAKEY, ASRAINTRPT, ASRAREGS, ASRAPSW, etc). But the one item that is not available to the ASSIGN API, that would be of great benefit for solving a wild branch, ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CICSPA to support COLLENGTH for TASKCNT on PROFILING report

The amount of transaction volume on our production LPAR causes this field to be displayed with exponential notation usually with an E2 or E3 suffix. For accuracy it is preferred to have a complete number for this field.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Ability to extract packages from an export file into another file via a batch interface

We require the ability to transport resource definitions between geographically dispersed sysplexes and to apply transformation rules in the process. This need means we will have to migrate through an export file.Since the export file will be used...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

More transparency for Liberty users

Liberty is integrated in the CICS, but it functions as a "subsystem WAS" in the subsystem “CICS”. There is a lack of rational means for debugging and clarification. Thus, Liberty acts as a poorly integrated foreign body in CICS. See also Pmr 87726...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Set timeout value on a MQ descriptor (to tell MQ how long time the message stay on the MQ queue before it is deleted)

Be able to set a timeout value for an asynchronous message to MQ using an MQ descriptor. (To tell MQ how long time the message should stay on the MQ queue before it is deleted.)
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Not under consideration

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