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Enterprise COBOL - Introduce equivalent of conditional compilation in management of compilation options in SYSOPTF

Hi, Managing compilation options can be complex due to the multiplicity of contexts: batch, cics, db2, static call, dynamic call, etc. This complexity is increased when several versions of the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler must coexist with opt...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Delete Support for High Availability Option

The High Availability Option of IBM CL/SUPERSESSION should support the ability to push deletions of NAM and TDB database records across instances of Supersession.
almost 12 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support resource in different groups in CSD parser

ADDI CSD parser to support CICS resource defined in different groups.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Remove 32bit licinsing executables

The security department has marked the 32bit components of the licensing component on a zd&t target as a security risk. We need to be able to choose not to install these components. Files in /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_se...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Messages in SYSLOG for administration acts

Adding a message in the SYSLOG for each acts of administration on Service/API (Deploiement, stop, start)
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add Member name information

IBM Application Discovery v5.0.4.2 onward Product is used for e.g. cross referencing usage of Programs and JCLs etc. to perform in depth analysis for change impact or in case of Operational issues. We would like to see a feature to select programs...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

PL/I parser support for MACROs

PL/I parser issues warnings in the editor if there are MACROs within the INCLUDEs
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration

SQL and XQuery Editor should "Insert spaces for tabs" as default

The COBOL and JCL Editor of IBM Developer for z/OS convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File. The SQL and XQuery Editor within IBM Devolper for z/OS does NOT convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Need mechanism for recovering isolated CMAS without restart

The ability to:1) Recover an isolated CMAS without having to restart the entire CMAS address space.2) The ability to tune/configure the timeout interval that leads to CMAS isolation in order to avoid having these events occur.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Not under consideration

Add DUMMY and * support to DD Statements in zUnit

I recently spoke with Suman Gopinath and William Alexander about this. We have many programs at my shop that use the DD SYSOUT=* or DD DUMMY functionality of JCL. We do this for assorted purposes, whether it is creating a report or just wanting to...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

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