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we have a large project with about 8.000 cobol sources. Trying to make software analyzer baseline crashes with java memory errors. Make it possible to create baseline for big projects

We want to make a baseline for the entire project so we can use this baseline for analysing cobol sources and do not get all problems over and over again.
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 0 Future consideration

Add recommended data types to command documentation

When reviewing code, we try to teach the developers to use the right data type for the right purpose - use a binary index, don't do calculations with display numerics, etc. It would be very helpful if they didn't have to figure for themselves whic...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

IPCONN & Transaction AutoInstall

We have a TOR/AOR configuration. In the AOR we have these parameters in order to not define the mirror transactions that use the application: DSRTPGM=ISSDYP00,DTRPGM=ISSDYP00,DTRTRAN=@MIR If we use an MRO connection and execute this command in the...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

manage/clean ctgjnilog files

The WebSphere application server z/OS generates messages in the ctgjnilog files and we need to manage/clean ctgjnilog files ourself. I would like these files would be managed more efficiently in the future. Could you create new options to be set: ...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

zUnit should provide option to remove or clear the queues created during recording

zUnit is creating TSQs like A+ 6A²N, A+ Ù7), etc when stop recording is triggered in IDz. These TSQs are not deleted upon completion of the recording activity, thus leaving it in the system causing shortage to tempstorage.
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

Allow IMS applications to connect with the MQ queue sharing group name

Allow a IMS BMP to issue an MQCONN call specifying the queue sharing group name instead of the queue manager name
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Timeout for transactions in TCLASS.

Customer would like to be able to define a timeout for TCLASS to begin to purge tasks (PURGETHRESH) rather than relying only on the number of tasks queued.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

JSON PARSE error handling improvements

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose messages and tokens to application code. It would be helpful if application logic can determine which PARSE messages to display or suppress. Also, message tokens can be useful in error handling in...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IMS ORF to invoke IMS Index Builder independently to be able to rebuild the Indexes while the Main DB and indexes are active in the control regions.

In order to rebuild the Prim or Secondary indexes, the Main DB and indexes must be taken offline. If the Index build utility can be invoked by ORF and perform the Index maintenance using the Shadow copy, the main database and indexes will remain a...
over 2 years ago in IMS Online Reorganization Facility for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Setting a custom value for the Content-Type HTTP header in z/OS Connect API response messages

We are currently trying to align the error messages sent by our company's REST APIs with this RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7807 (Problem Details for HTTP APIs). One of the standards in the RFC is setting the Content-Type HTTP head...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

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