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Cobol V5/6: Additional statistics about inlining

In RFE 78496 a compiler directive to control inlining is requested.Additional to this valid RFE request an inlining statistic would be helpful. If sections/paragraphs are large and called from several places, inlining duplicates code throughout th...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Link to JavaScript files i.s.o copying them into deployed EGL RUI HTML (Dynamic Loading)

When deploying an EGL RUI handler to an HTML file, all referenced JavaScript files are copied into the HTML. This makes the HTML really large, increasing load time and initial response in the browser. It also causes duplication of widget JavaScrip...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 7 Delivered

Getting transaction rate in per second value

Hi Team, Recently, we have upgraded Omegamon/CICS from v5.3 to v5.5 and the change we are looking is, Transaction rate has been changed from per second to per minute. Is it possible to give users an option if they want the transaction rate report ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

"Complete" Code Coverage report covering multiple runs

It would be great to have the possibility to generate a "complete" code coverage report, on multiple job executions, showing us the "total" percentage and total number of lines of code which was actual covered, combined in the different job execut...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Allow IMS/MFS/OLP(operator logical pagin) to page beyond 4096 screens

Unknown to most, there currently is a limit of 4096 screens that can be returned (IOPCB type output) using MFS OLP feature (Operator Logical Paging). We are currently hitting this limit in our software at several large telco clients. The limit is/...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 3 Delivered

need to create a sequential MVS data set (FB, LRECL 80) with the name userID.EQATIOUT

We are working on an ADFz poc.One of the new functionalities we want to test is the debugger for an IMS transaction in IDz.In de installation instructionshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/adfz/developer-for-zos/15.0.0?topic=sfetif-installing-configuring...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Microseconds in PL/I

All Date/Time routines (BIF) should support at least microseconds (or better). Actually it's just milliseconds.
almost 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Implement Orient Database on Mainframe

Currently, IBM AD has the option of implementing the metadata data on z/OS (instead of on a Windows Server platform) in DB2 (instead of SQL Server). This allows the User to keep the various z/OS artifacts on the Mainframe. However, the "Orient Dat...

Add mask possibility other than '*' to the connection details of the TPF debugger. Example of mask: 172.*.*.*

Since Covid many off use started working from home including the use of the TPF debugger. However, at home you have more than 1 IP address and we know you can supply the IP address in the advanced option of the debug session.But every day we log o...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

Enhance Copy/paste of dataset to include SMS details

When creating a new dataset via copy and paste in IDZ Remote Systems View, the user has no options except file name. The dialog is driven via a GUI and you right click and select COPY and then right click and select paste - no option to specify un...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered