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Conditional Comparison Column Exclusion

We need the ability to conditionally exclude columns from processing. For example, if columns 1 through 5 are APPLE, then exclude columns 6 through 10 in the comparison. We would need to be able to use different versions of this exclusion in the s...
over 5 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Db2 host-variable xLOB-FILE difference coprocessor and pre-processor

We noticed a difference of generation between the preprocessor Db2 and the coprocessor Db2 integrated to the compiler Cobol, on the generation of hosts-variables of type xLOB-FILE (USAGE SQL TYPE IS xLOB-FILE): - the preprocessor Db2 generates a S...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

In Debug Tool provide a method in the 3270 and GUI to display control blocks from CICS, IMS, and DB2.

Currently if a control block variable is defined in application code, those can be displayed via a LIST or MONITOR command. However if the application code does not contain the definition you are unable to review those control blocks.
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Need Locate function in CARMA

Difficult to look for an element without the "Locate" function.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Cics Liberty Profile Security without entry in web.xml

At the moment you need to define in each projects web.xml if you want a security or not. In a Cics where you have a general security in a 3270, or on other interfaces, this is not realy nice, because if a programmer forgets the entry in a web.xml ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

awsstop sync

Don't complete the awsstop command until all aws.... threads have terminated - a synchronous stop. Currently the awsstop command completes before all awsckd threads have completed. This means that the files updating the disk images are still open ...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under consideration

Internal Trace should not be allowed to be disabled

Opening this RFC on behalf of the customer in PMR 67263,122,000. They experienced a 2-byte Storage Violation in a TIOA. They run with internal trace turned off, so no history of the storage was visible in the trace table. They were asked to turn a...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Request empty volumes durng deploy

Introduce an ability to specify additional empty volumes as part of either specification of an image (preferred) or as part of the deploy.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

ZSVTT entry will not validate spares for fixed records

We can only validate fixed records and pool records but NOT spare records. Sabre doesn't use the alternate FCTB loader so I'm concerned that we have to IPL the system (downtime if it's a single processor) to load a second FCTB just to validate the...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Support Remote files for EST Project Explorer

The "EST Project Explorer" view used for creating IMS SOAP XML Gateway converter modules should allow remote files for source copy books, WSDLs, etc.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Not under consideration

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