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Enhancement to allow Control-flow to work for when there is no space between subscript

We have a lot of code in Production where there is no space after the comma in statements using subscripts. The code is in copybooks as well as programs, Cobol compiled gives a warning but successfully creates the load module. However Program Cont...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Support for Extended Address Volume (EAV) on z/OS

Currently RDz does not support Extended Address Volume (EAV) on z/OS. This is a major inhibitor to the adoption of RDz in z/OS host application development, since host data sets on EAV cannot be accessed via RDz.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Automation Server job status

It would be useful to have a field in the HSIACDS dataset that customers could update with the result of the job execution. Customers could add a job step to update the ACDS with an RC or other status information. Maybe 'FAILED' or 'WAITING RERUN'...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Delivered

Add OS Version to repository in IZSAM

Operating System Version VVRRMM is currently captured during IQ Scan. Please add this to the repository and include in Machine Inventory report. This property will assist in asset management, especially LPAR and Hardware assets. Our Asset Manageme...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 3 Delivered

Add support for named constants in JSONNAME attribute

Only string constants in JSONNAME attribute are supported for now. Please add support for named constants in JSONNAME attribute.
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Support variables declared from typed structures as third argument in JSON builtins

PL/I compiler doesnt support variables declared from typed structures as third argument in JSON builtins. Please add support for such declares to JSON builtins.
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

COBOL v6.2 IGZ0304W should also show CU or program name

Currently, the message prints the table-name, verb, and line number. But, many times we may be a few programs in via CALLs and we don't know which program to look in immediately. Printing the CU or current program would help quickly diagnose this ...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

CICSPA dashboards for Elastic

Hello, Barclays is Elastic Stack user and it would be nice if CICS PA dashboard tool that is being developed would be created not only for Splunk, but also for Elastic too.
over 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Customer requires all runtime metrics collection components, data, logs, etc to be fixed to a single time zone

This aligns the collected results, logs and etc to time frames that align with the other tools, processes, etc in the enterprise. This is a blocker to adoption of RTMC in production.
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Allow Basic Authorization in API Requester Using CICS

Currently no authorization header is being passed when using API Requester in CICS. This allows anyone with access to the CICS region to run the API Request regardless of whether or not they exist in the GlobalInvokeGroup in the server.xml. IMS an...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

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