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COBOL code quality rules should use the preprocessor

The COBOL code quality rules should check within the code generated by the preprocessor. At the moment (Version 9.1) the preprocessor statements are ignored. They are not checked at all. Please check the COBOL code generated by the preprocessor fo...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Multiple CPSM ESSS Subsystems on one LPAR

2 separate CICSPlexes are connected to separate CMAS on the same LPAR. Each CICSPlex and CMAS respresents a separate Environment such as development and maintenance Environment. Each CMAS should have his own ESSS Subsystem on the same LPAR. So the...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

Expand all option in z/OS-Projects / MVS-Subprojects

We would like to have a context menu option to expand all items below the selected item in the z/OS Projects View. E.g. Right-click on a z/OS Project, MVS Subproject or a Library shall expand all sub-items
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Large Documents are printed with missing information

We noticed some documents are arriving incomplete to Docpath. These documents have many pages, and each time we try to print them, we are having randomly several pages (never the full document). After checking, we realized that the files .spl requ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

View print job button is not working as expected

The view print job button appears disabled when trying to click it (see image attatched)
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

New Event Processing - System Event - Terminal monitoring

EP System Event for Terminals
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Getting Error [1043] : syntax Error for schid which are used in JCL's

Hi Team, When we try to build JCL which are having Schid's ( #JI, #JEND ) , we are getting Error[1043]. it seems ADDI compiler not recognizing #JI, #JEND in the JCL's and throwing the errors while building. It would be great help if the new versio...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

ContentAssist enhancements

Some enhancements for the pli-contentAssist:-in many cases the Content assist doesn't Show proposals, at least built-ins and preprocessor Statements should be shown all the time-group the Content of the contentAssist in several pages, if working, ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Add "user" field to PARMBLK

TI has a usermod where we require a field in PARMBLK (PXPARMS) to chain one of our data areas. This usermod has existed for 30+ years. We use one of the "reserved" fullwords at the end of PXPARMS to store the address of this area. We use the last ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

GDPS Design Council and the z/OS Container Council to transform the GDPS Control LPARs to either a Secure Services Container

Many larger customers and even smaller customers have more GDPS control LPARs than they have actual z/OS application LPARs. (AmEx – 20 GDPS LPARs for Global Mirror). The amount of control LPARs then have be kept current with z/OS maintenance, secu...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

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