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64 bit support in COBOL

We need 64 bit addressing capability with our COBOL application program executables.
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Allow use of System Symbols in CICS LIBRARY resource

Hello,we are implementing CICS LIBRARY resources in our CICS Systems.However we'd have appreciated being able to specify System Symbols in DSNames within the Library concatenation. As we currently use System Symbols to make products upgrades in ou...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Don't stop PGM on abend

A lot of our jobs are running IMSBATCH only for GSAM feature (only DB2 access)We are using GSAM for repositionning/restart capabilityAll these jobs are running with the same BMP which contains 10 input files (in01 to in10) and 20 output files (OUT...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Delivered

Perform until exit

Now that COBOL finally has proper EXIT statements there should be a way to speciify an "infinite" loop, or rather a loop that has no explicit end condition but depends on the use of EXIT PERFORM (or EXIT PROGRAM, STOP RUN, GOBACK) to terminate the...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Delivered

duplicate a program in any existing projects

Useful to duplicate a program in an easy way, without having to take multiple steps to achieve the same When duplicating a program, in the Design Entity Duplication wizzard, the Design Project list only shows the current project and those undernea...
about 1 year ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

Add the monitoring screen for colored status in SMU

Our customer wants to the monitoring screen with SMU so that the status of the resource can be seen in color.But there is no way to display all colored status. Please add the function to identify as the colored fields or character for the all kind...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 2 Delivered

Host On Demand License manager logs rotate.

The License manager for Host On Demand, running on WAS Liberty generates a log file for the license usage. It's required to have functions for logrotate making the file be generated daily so that afterwards the daily files can be archived. <use...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

GDPS/LCP panel security

As outlined in our case TS005575235 we think it is a major issue that GDPS does not have panel security for LCP. It appears as though any internal user with GDPS access can go in and adjust the LCP management profile and change the retention perio...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

Change the way the Preprocessor works for PLI

The PL/I processors are working as designed in the product. But sometimes it takes more than 15(!) minutes in order to complete the work - this is for the daily work completely unacceptable. A feature would be needed to change the mechanism IDZ id...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Delivered

AT-TLS Support for Problem Determination Tools

IBM Problem Determination Tools Studio Plugin for File/Manager, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool currently does not support TLS policies through Communication Server AT-TLS. This RFE is to add an enhancement to the Eclipse Client Plug-ins to be able to ...
almost 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

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