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Build Client CSD Parser should handle LIST GROUP

Currently the CSD parser will only handle a DFHCSDUP report produced with LIST LIST(.....). It does not use the output of a LIST GROUP(....) OBJECTS command
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Customer OPEL - Multiple cobol Nested Programs with same Program ID

The customer OPEL has a situation with multiple nested cobol Programs and most of the nested programs has the same Program ID(MAINPROG) and hence this is listed multiple times under cobol programs which customer feels difficult to understand becau...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Provide open include / copybook on preprocessed files

For customers with heavy usage of macros, IDZ provides the option to use the preprocessor integration feature to enable the editor tooling. When a customer processes the file and also resolves the includes / copybooks, the developer misses the fea...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

allow for zd&t docker image to be loaded from a repository

The customer would like to load the zd&t docker image from a repository of their choosing.
almost 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Implement dynamic-capacity tables

Implement dynamic-capacity tables as defined by the COBOL 2014 standard (INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2014 [2014]).
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Missing Data Capture Exit Support for IMS Open Database Access

Updates to IMS databases via Open database access do not trigger the database capture exit routines.
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

New builtin to replace ''

Initializing large structures, especially in procedures that are called many times, using '' is something that should rightly be frowned upon, and wherever possible, such initialisations should be done only once, saving the initialised structure i...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

AD - Pop up alert to broadcast notification to end users.

In the current AD version there is no facility to broadcast notification alert to user's community, instead we usually send information to application discovery users via email distributions. This idea is about introducing new feature to notify ma...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

64-bit support for C/C++ under CICS Transaction Server

One of our customers is creating a C/C++ application for financial services (broker). This application is running in a CICS transaction environment. Because of high transaction workload we are suffering storage constraint because C/C++ is still li...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Additional SuperC returncode for changed data compare

Batch invocation of SuperC (ISRSUPC) currently gives two "normal" completion return codes, 0 for "No differences" and "1" for "Differences found". A third "normal" completion return code of 2 would be advantageous for those cases where there are n...
over 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 4 Not under consideration

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