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Enterprise COBOL to support greater than 999,999 lines in source listing

Since the introduction of Enterprise COBOL version 5 in 2013/2014, IBM has been all about eliminating constraints and limits in the COBOL compiler. In Enterprise COBOL version 6, IBM introduced the 64-bit backend processing to support programs of ...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

z/OS Connect: From a Cobol copybook, expose Cobol variables as JSON fields of type Boolean - define and map type Boolean

z/OS Connect: expose Cobol variables as JSON fields of type Boolean. Starting from a Cobol copybook, provide means (from a command line or from the tooling, service or API), to define JSON instance fields (values) of type Boolean, and map them to ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

HourGlass should support Java-Applications

Modifying a java date/time is currently not available.Easy Example:System.out.println(("[" + new Date().toString() + "]" + meldung));But sometimes the Date (or time) is relevant for the kind of processing,like "old processing to december, 31, old ...
about 8 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 7 Delivered

Allow JSON(ENCODING()) to accept CCSID

Recently implemented compiler option JSON(ENCODING(EBCDIC)) only supports the current codepage. We use code page 037 by default. However, the JSON we work with needs to be 1047 due to interactions with other tools. The square brackets are especial...
6 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

The Start Flagging changed line in the COBOL Editor is not available

An important feature of LPEX is missing in the COBOL editor: The Start Flagging changed line is not available. We're using this functionality to automatically mark the first 6 columns of the COBOL program.We would need this functionality in the CO...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Delivered

Display Return Code for each step in JES Remote Systems view

Although provided in Monitor and in Show in Table, we need to see the return code for each step in JES in RSE view.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 11 Delivered

Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls

Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Delivered

New UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFE 4122

New UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFE 4122 (125715) Please provide a new UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFC 4122. To be able to generate version 4 and 5 in the same program we suggest the following...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE 3.x Nullable field support

DB2 RESTful API definition via API TOOLKIT require SAR file generated by BUILDTOOLKIT. BUILDTOOLKIT requires REQUEST/RESPONSE schema created under DB2 RESTful SERVICE capabilities. They carry NULLABLE parameters/fields. While defining PATH paramet...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Official version of Dojo Mobile components

We want to develop mobile web applications. Currently this can only be done with a preview of the Dojo Mobile components: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en_US#/wiki/W75c8733d99bb_4d55_9ee8_4dbc8c56ebee/page/EGL...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

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