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IDz v16.0.2 RCE is not using the full display on monitor. It should enhance to use completed display area for better readability.

IDz v16.0.2 RCE is not using the full display on monitor. It should enhance to use completed display area for better readability. It will improve developer to read screen properly.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Not under consideration

Keep IMS generation process after the requirement for IMS-managed ACBs is in place

There is a statement of direction that IBM will eliminate the need for system generation in following announcement letter.https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/760/ENUSJP17-0477/index.html&request_locale=ja ...
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 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

The ability for CICS to capture data and graph into Grafana/Promethius.

We would like a similar capability that MQ supplies via GitHub that provides capabilities to format display data and allows you to graph it via Grafana/Promethius. This request would not be for a separate chargeable product but provided either in ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Prevent a performance impact while displaying Shared Temporary Storage using CPSM

If CPSM is used to display a very large Shared Temporary Storage , CICS scans the entire Shared Temporary Storage, causing a performance impact . My idea is to have CICS "throttle" or "segment" its scan , allowing other work to progress avoiding ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Better performance by converting STCK to STCKF instructions in CPS0

PJ39153 on PUT08 introduced code in CCCTIN to convert several STCK instructions to STCKF instructions if the store-clock-fast facility is installed. Fast forward to 2017 and TPF will "not IPL correctly or run as intended on a machine earlier than ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 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...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

load Business Rules from external source

We want to load business rules from an external source and have ADI preform the initial linking to code source using the names/terms/keywords in the loaded Business rule. We would also like ADI to identify whether the code was link through the aut...

Add Business rule discovery support for ASM/PLI

We need Business rule discovery for (at least) Assembler