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IBM Debug should honor the Special-Names Decimal-Point setting in COBOL

At the moment the Eclipse Debug views "Variables" and "Monitors" only display fractional values (like s9v99) with a decimal-point (e.g. "3.14") In most countries of Europe including Germany the common decimal-sign is a comma (e.g. "3,14") so the p...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

IMS Explorer does not accept more than an 8 character password and does accept passphrases.

IMS Explorer does not accept more than an 8 character password and does accept passphrases. Our corporate requirement for security passwords is a 10 character passphrase. We are unable to use the product without the 10 character passphrase.RACF an...
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 33 Delivered

Lift restriction impose by the number of non system LX

Currently the maximum number of linkage index (LX) allowed for CICS is 2048. In our shop we have over 700+ CICS regions running in the same LPAR. Each CICS consumes 2-4 LX. This leaves no room for other batch job which has the need to use LX and c...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Option to only display the active sessions within Supersession

We have recently migrated from TPX to Supersession. When a user logs onto TPX they get a complete list of sessions, exactly as in Supersession. However it is possible for a user to override the display of sessions by entering a temporary override...
almost 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

zUnit to be able to handle pointers in the linkage variables

Our cobol programs are utilizing pointer variables in the linkages. Using zUnit Test Case Input wizard, the copybooks referenced by the pointers are not seen resulting to not being able to provide input data to a test scenario. PMR 46883,122,000 i...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

Multi-Thread ZPOOL INIT Entries

Currently the ZPOOL INIT functions are single threaded, and there is a real need for these functions to be mult-threaded. The multi-threaded logic currently runs in seconds(production) and minutes in Native and VPARS. The current IBM logic runs fo...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Ergonomic character size

With the availibilty of the large displays like 24" and 27" with their high screen resolution PCOMM no longer provides the required ergonomic minimum character size. Changing the screen resolution does not solve problem, as any screen has only one...
over 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Delivered

Missing UP message for CKMJMAIN.

CKMJMAIN does not have a message for System Automation or other product to identify that it has been completely initialized and has successfully connected to all hosts.
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 2 Delivered

RDz cannot access dataset aliases with symbolic names

On our host platform symbolic names are used. We cannot access dataset aliases, which are using symbolic names. e.g.: 1. This symbolic name is set in SYS1.PARMLIB SYSDEF SYMDEF(&CICS#W4='C1#CIC52') 2. This alias is set CISD.CICS.SDFHPL1 -> ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Service level transaction expiry support for IMS OTMA

We would like to give our API developers the capability to specify on OTMA timeout value and activate IMS OTMA transaction expiry. We would like the developer to be able to specify the timeout value and whether to activate transaction expiry or no...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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