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Assembly Listing Headers - Four lines of USINGs information is not enough

Currently, the page headers area for Assembly listings is limited to 8 lines: title line, page number, column headers and... from two to four lines of active USINGs information. I use named USINGs a LOT! So much so, that I frequently blow through ...
over 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

Provide new ADCD RSU (PTFs) monthly maintenance

ADCD provided with ZPDT (for partners) has RSU maintenance (i think a monthly maintenance). The installation of this maintenance is responsibility of the customer. The ADCD provided with ZDT is different to the ADCD provided with ZPDT, but i think...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Need a step by step tutorial for zUnit with local projects

The documentation has some samples but with remote datasets. It will be helpful to have a tutorial with local projects as there is no zUnit property groups and building the testcase is different.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Parameter to control loading of the artifacts on startup

Hello IBM, z/OS Connect currently load all the artifacts while starting and there is no parameter to control loading which can cause z/OS Connect instance to run out or memory on startup due to obsolete services within /services folder. We are req...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Generate FROM/INTO db2_view in a pacprogram from dataagregate -gg

The standards are to use the generation of SQL EXEC statements from the -gg of dataagregate. The purpose is also to specify the -gg "a minima", usually the WHERE clause. Work is underway to bring programs that do not use this generation back up to...
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

VS Code plugin for AD Analyze client

We have spent a lot of time trying to make AD Analyze client work with IDZ without any success. we then resorted to having a separate installation of AD analyze client with IBM Explorer.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

User-EQAOPTS should not be able to override systemwide GPFDSN

Settings made by the system programmer in GPFDSN should not be changeable by single users.A possible solution would be to enhance GPFDSN command by 'override' or 'nooverride'Example:EQAXOPT GPFDSN,'GROUP1.COMMON.DTOOL.PREFS',NOOVERRIDE
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

BUILD CLIENT SHOULD RUN AS AN "OLD SCHOOL OMVS/ISPF" application "WHEN" build parser is rewritten to JAVA

Parser utilizes ZIIP for JAVA parsing, the source code can remain on zOS, BUILD CLIENT does not need graphics....this is a lot simpler than running build on another platform.
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow cBAC to store a start request in the cBAC control file when CICS is down so that the start command can then execute when the CICS region comes up

We are currently considering converting from DADS to cBAC and are testing cBAC in a CICS test region. We did find a function that DADS can do but cBAC cannot do. We have many applications that do a start tran in DADS so that the start command is e...
over 1 year ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHSC2LS CICS XML Assistant - recognize min/max lengths specified in XSD <pattern> elements

Requesting DFHSC2LS enhancement to recognize min/max lengths specified in XSD <pattern> elements to reduce COBOL copybook lengths. DFHSC2LS does not recognize min/max length specified in XSD <pattern> elements and generates COBOL copyb...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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