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ISRSUPC Support Of Datasets Created With Large Block Interface

Request for ISRSUPC (batch program for SUPERC compare) to support datasets created with Large Block Interface.
over 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ Support REPLACE directive with ALSO phrase

ISO/IEC 1989:202x WD 1.00 describes the ALSO phrase for compiler directive REPLACE. This is currently not implemented in Enterprise Cobol 6.2. ALSO will enable us to use more than one REPLACE statement in Cobol source without overriding the replac...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

DB2 and CICS pre- compilers do not recognize Cobol V5 floating comments

COBOL V5 allows use of "floating comment", sequence space + " * >" followed by a free text. DB2 pre- compiler (tested with DB2 V10) and CICS pre-compiler (tested with CICS TS 4.2) do not recognize this Cobol V5 syntax comment, and the presence ...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Query zD&T License Count

A REST api to return the number of licenses in use and the total number of licenses. This would be applicable to all types of licenses (ex: Enterprise and Parallel Sysplex)
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Pause/Resume zD&T

In order to manage zD&T licenses and avoid having to ipl (or dynamically configure an instance of a running z/OS under zD&T), we are requesting the following: The ability to “pause” or “Quiesce” a running z/OS within the emulator and free ...
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Snapshot a zD&T Instance

Create a snapshot of a paused/quiesced system that would include the state of the memory, disk, communication, cpu, etc and have the ability to save it and restart the instance on the same machine or a different machine (or VM)
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Allow the underscore separators to improve readability.

From the assembler list (ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 3 Jun 2012 to 4 Jun 2012 (#2012-101)) Allow underscore in values: for example allow the developer to code:A DC F'2_147_483_647' rather than A DC F'2 147 483 647' or A DC F'2147483647'
over 12 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 5 Not under consideration

Native RTC integration

Native RTC integration is required
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Simplify the use of OTMA descriptors

PROCLIB member DFSYDTx follows the same rule as the ETO descriptor members DFSDSCMx using a one byte suffix. The value must match the SUFFIX= parameter of the IMSGEN system definition macro with the result that we can only create one DFSYDTx membe...
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

AD Build Client fails IDMS MODULES

Problem description and business impact We are using AD 5050 on Windows Server 2016. AD Build Client fails IDMS MODULES, the parser does not know how to handle MODULES, there is no shared build folder for IDMS Modules available and when adding the...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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