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(TPFUG/Visa) Need to remediate the overhead of special linkage libraries being in loadsets

Frequently Entered Program (FEP) support provides the means to alleviate the cost of having a program in a loadset that is entered many times by the same ECB. The FEP support allows an ECB to determine the version it should use by locking the base...
11 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Cobol V6R2 - Conflict between INITCHECK and OPTIMIZE(0)

The new Cobol V6R2 INITCHECK compile option is conflicting with OPTIMIZE(0) compile option : IGYOS4021-W The "INITCHECK" option was discarded due to option conflict resolution. The "OPTIMIZE(0)" option took precedence. Even if internally there can...
almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Start/stop debug region in multiple LPARs with the use of preferences

For debug IMS isolation Ability to start/stop two different private IMS regions in parallell LPARs using different job cards for each job that is started. When starting one region from configuration option Remote IMS application with Isolation, a ...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

IMS Continuous Page enhancement

Please add a date column for each item added to the IMS Continuous page https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPH2_15.1.0/com.ibm.ims15.doc.rpg/ims_cd_functions.htm (similar to looking at hipers for products) and if possible RSU the PTF...
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

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

Change default cursor location .

When I press the escape key (which is usually an ATTN key) while inside a session, then the cursor will default to the first session on the main menu. In a previous version ( 1.4.7) the cursor was always positioned on the current session when re...
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 4 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

Lack of options in START CHANNEL

Under CICS TS 5.4 - and up to 5.6 there is no support for the PROTECT / NOCHECK options with START commands issued with CHANNELs. This imposes a significant limitation where CHANNEL's are in effect the strategic comms pattern for CICS program inte...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Allow enable/disable of transactions starting with C

Allow CEMT and SPI functions to enable or disable user transactions starting with "C".
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

GDPS/LCP with SGC in any SITE for MGM 4-SITE topology

We would like the ability to use GDPS/LCP to take a SGC capture in any of our 4 possible SITEs in a MGM 4-SITE topology. Today we have virtual isolated LCP and are taking SGC captures on our local Prod disk with our MzGM (XRC) 4-SITE, and then w...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

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