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compare resources

Provide a mechanism to compare multiple resources and highlight the differences. It would be very useful to be able to easily compare multiple different resources between the two regions.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 web connectivity and web service support

Currently, no web connectivity can be set up from PL/1. As a consequence, we cannot call web services from PL/1 batch programs on z/OS.We prefer to have some builtins to set up web connectivity and to call web interfaces described with WSDLs, XML ...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Print Button/Function

A PRINT function, in CICS Explorer would be very handy. to send a 'printer friendly' view to a printer.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Not under consideration

Tool to auto correct COBOL code with EXEC SQL stmts that require period

Though there has been a requirement that EXEC SQL INCLUDE statements are to be terminated with a period, IBM never enforced this rule when the DB2 Preprocessor was released. As a result, many Users did not "properly" code their COBOL DB2 programs....
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Job Flow Graph view display job's dataset member name.

Some JCLs hold multiple JOB cards.It is difficult to identify original member name in displayed view of Job Flow Graph now.Place member name on the header of view and output file of Job Flow Graph.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Display COBOL section information on Program Flow.

To have an ability see the structure of COBOL sections and paragraphs in Program Flow.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Show/Hide selected type of arrow links in Program Flow graphs.

In program flow graphs, it occasionally becomes too busy to understand the structure of the program.We need a function to select a certain type of link from "legends" view, so that users can follow the flow of the specified links.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Open API for ADI

Provide an open API to take in information from other products
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 1 Not under consideration

AD to supports standard Cobol Calls across application projects

Customer has a high number of cross-application source inter-dependencies. The product currently supports cross-application API calls via API Extensibility. Would like to request for the support of standard Cobol calls across application modules. ...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CPU time logged if trx is purged while on L8 TCB

To day the cputime is not logged to CMF if a transaction is purged while on L8 TCB.According to IBM this is working as designed.Many applications are now running Threadsafe , so the risk of loosing cputime is great
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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