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Data collection should support user message counters and a customizable weighted message calculation

• A vanilla object code version of offline DATAREAD should be shipped so that customers with no local mods do not have to compile the offline code. If customers can use the vanilla shipped DATAREAD they would not need a PL/1 compiler and could sav...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V4/V5/V6 - Conflicting options DYNAM and CICS("EXCI") is false

When using the CICS coprocessor to compile programs using the EXCI interface, option CICS("EXCI"), the compiler reports an error if the DYNAM option is used : IGYOS4020-W The "DYNAM" option was discarded due to conflict resolution option. The "CIC...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Z/OS Connect DLL version of BAQCSTUB

Currently z/OS Connect V3 does not deliver a DLL version of the BAQCSTUB stub module. As a consequence this stub cannot be called dynamically from a application program compiled with the DLL option
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Support of >>PUSH and >>POP directive as described in ISO Cobol standard 2014

Extract from ISO Cobol standard 2014 : The state of compiler directives may be saved and restored with PUSH and POP directives. A “stack” is maintained that the state of a directive may be pushed on to. A subsequent POP directive removes the item ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Display of all items in the CRPA area

Add a display of all items in the CRPA areas.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Limit the use of the ALL parameter for certain IMS type 2 commands.

Limit the use of the ALL parameter for certain IMS type 2 commands.
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 4 Not under consideration

Relative Date Offset

Hourglass currently supports relative year offset using Yxdd where x=P for plus and M for minus and dd= number of years to offset. Please add support for relative day offset.You could use something like Dxdddd where x=P or M and dddd is the number...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Recoup Phase 5 use of the RTL tape

Recoup phase 5 (ZRECP DUMP entry) writes all lost and erroneously available file pool records to the current real-time logging tape (RTA or RTL). Can the recoup phase 5 process be changed to write to a different tape thats only used for recoup? HP...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Simpler color corrections

As a developer, I would like to be able to make font/color adjustments while looking at my own code. The current method involves changing them when looking at some sample code in the preferences menu. Ideally, I would be able to change those setti...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 program name in PUT DATA / PUT LISTwithin CICS runtime

When running PL/I programs under CICS it is sometimes necessary to activate PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs to analyse problems within applications even in production environments.The output from PL/1 programs with PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs is prefixed by Ter...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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