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Capability ISPF UI to display the LOCAL time in the job restart panel

This would be useful when there are multiple job restart record for the same job name. Using the LOCAL time will be meaningful to operations people who use PRF to manipulate the job restart records.
about 2 years ago in IMS Program Restart Facility for z/OS 3 Delivered

FA to warn on source mismatch if NOLIST option was on

FA usually does a check if a compiler listing matches the module in storage or not. This is done by comparing the last few instructions in te listing with the last instructions in the loaded module. But FA can't do this check for COBOL if the NOLI...
over 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

RTMC - SSL Connections for Kafka

Need the ability to easily configure tpfrtmc and the RTMC analyzer to connect to kafka with SSL. Example of relevant settings below. May not be a complete list. security.protocol=ssl.keystore.location=ssl.keystore.password=ssl.key.password= ssl.tr...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Make CP22 APAR PH44215 (new back chain validation) configurable by new CRUISE Table parameter.

CP22 APAR PH44215 included new back chain validation where the backward chain in the prime should now be the last in chain. Full backward chain validation is also in play with PH44215.We ran into some old/legacy databases that were created before ...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

[RPP] Rule "éviter les expressions NEXT SENTENCE"

Related to archived case TS002533615 in RPP 962 : Il ne faut pas appliquer cette règle sur ce qui est généré par une ligne N de type IT DW DU... car c'est le générateur qui produit la clause NEXT SENTENCE. Bernard ETIENNE wrote " I confirm this de...
about 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

Information about "source complexity"

The Cobol V5-Compiler is able to lower the specified optimization level if the source is "too complex", a compiilation with the specified optimization level would take to long. I would like to have the Enterprise PL/1 compiler compute a "complexit...
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

Compiler options enhancements

Virtually every release of Enterprise PL/I adds new compiler options. It would be useful if the full list could be included in a member (pxoptXXX?) in the ' IELxxx.SIBMZSAM' sample library in a format that can be directly used by a PARM=('+DD:PLIS...
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

should be possible to reference all structure items

It should be possible to reference ? ?both items feld in a structure like<br /><br />01 struktur-01.<br /> 05 feld pic x(...).<br /> <br /> 05 struktur-05.<br /> ? ? ?06 feld pic x(..).<br /><br />...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Delivered

File Manager - Ruler Bar

Request to add ruler bar in the File Manager Plug-in when viewing unformatted datasets. This allows quick viewing access to the cursor position without the need to move the cursor to a specific location.
over 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Delivered

Enhancement in Scratch Functionality for accurate clean up into the system

In Current architecture of IBM DBB we are populating the delete record in build report based on the value of ${langPrefix}_outputDatasets. Example: If we are processing a DB2 component then we are just populating the delete record for load but we ...
about 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Delivered