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Policy system rule for address space CPU consumption

There is policy task rule for CPU time but client needs for the entire CICS address space. In a high workload environment, each individual task may consume an acceptable amount of CPU but all together, they may surpass what is considered acceptable.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

New COBOL Compile Option: Global ON SIZE ERROR

When you want to handle overflow conditions and want to avoid truncated fields you have to code the ON SIZE ERROR statement for all computational statements.This is tedious work.In addition any decimal overflows conditions were suppressed by Langu...
almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Support %Rx commands in Eclipse

The %Rx command which is available in ISPF is not supported in the Eclipse dialog.
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support command file in Eclipse

The ISPF dialog supports command files for recurring debugging problems. This is not available in the Eclipse dialog.We have a team of developers who quite often have to prepare a debugging session in the same way (e.g. intercept a specific subtas...
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring data in ZCEE

Need of Monitoring data 'live' in ZCEE such as :Number of request in treatment (Service + API)Number of request treated (Service + API)Number of connected usersNumber of 'back end' (CICS,IMS,ect...) connected (specially with WOLA)Number of active ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS: Fragmentación de la memoria

La memoria de CICS se fragmenta y no existe ninguna forma de solucionar ese problema. Esta situación, impide utilizar áreas de, por ejemplo, 20 MB a transacciones de aplicación, algo que imposibilita la correcta ejecución de las transacciones, hac...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Display full graph with steps, programs and data sets in a batch job.

For visualizing the JCL of a batch job we can now choose between these Mainframe Graphs in AD: - 'Job Flow', which lists the steps within the job, but not the programs.- 'Job Callgraph', which shows the different programs being called, but does no...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Set LL value for IMS msg

A middleware application at the bank is responsible for sending data from branch applications back to IMS on the host and process the response back. The middleware team is looking to modernize this application to communicate to IMS using z/OS Conn...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' between columns is not correctly limited

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' results are notcorrect when 'Restrict Search to columns' is set.Euro Info is expecting to have results which are included between the 'Start' column and 'End' column.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the sum() builtin function and add two siblings

The SUM builtin function is a very useful feature of PL/I. However, unlike many other builtin functions it does not accept structures as argument.
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration