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LINECOUNT(0) compile option to disable all non-section pagebreaks

Current LC implementation expects a fixed linecount number. In rare cases listing sections exceede that line count.And for simplicity, LC(0) is easier to "remember" than an fixed number, which might change between compiler version
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

General export facility to data presented in 'table views' in RDz

We would like to have general possibility to export data, when they are presented in 'Table views' in RDz. In some of RDz 's views export facilities are at hand and we would like to have this facility broadened to all table views RDz .
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

LE CEEGTJS in PL/I - retrieves the value of an exported JCL symbol.

For the LE Function CEEGTJS (retrieves the value of an exported JCL symbol), we would like to have a same PL/I Function for it. Maybe PLIGTJS.
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Compilermessage for usage of two-digit Years.

As we want to eliminate all years with only 2 digits, we would like to have a compilermessage if the compiler detect at compiletime any usage of an two-digit year.For this, any usage of the Date Patterns: YY,ZY, BIF Y4DATE(), Y4JULIAN() and Y4YEAR...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

CICS preprocessor/translator options should be visible in the listing like the DB2 pre/coprocessor options.

Please implement the list of the CICS preprocessor/translator options to the compile listing, like as in the DB2 pre/coprocessor: DB2 Example: SQL Preprocessor Options Used CCSID0 NOCODEPAGE DEPRECATE( STMT( EXPLAIN GRANT REVOKE SET_CURRENT_SQLID ...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

[RPP] Proxy java generator

For GUI Applications, we use Pacbench eBusiness Générateur Java v2.5v13. Pacbench eBusiness Générateur Java v2.5v13 works fine with WINDOWS Server 2012, but we have planned an upgrade to WINDOWS Server 2019. As this tool is essential for developer...
over 1 year ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

Additional attributes in the Address_Space_Bottlenecks (ASGNWAIT) table in TEP

At the moment we cannot verify how the CPU_Loop_Index values are calculated. Based on the TDW data are not able to follow back the high CPU_Loop_Index value.As per the description the value is calculated the following way: CPU Loop IndexThe sum of...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Delivered

Accuracy of SECS() and SECSTODATE()

As the conversion from SECS() and visa versa to SECSTODATE() in the enhanced microsecond timestamp string is not accurate because of the FLOAT Datatype, we would like to have it exactly. Example:DCL WERT BIN FLOAT(53);WERT = SECS('2100-01-01-00.00...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

PDS SYNCRONISATION NEEDS TO SUPPORT MIXED SOURCE TYPES

Customer (Public Bank Berhad), running Application Discovery 5.1.0.5 has mixed source types in their PDSes, i.e. it contain various types of z/OS source files such as Cobol, Assembler within the same PDS. Currently, the PDS syncronisation cannot a...

Display multiple parts of STP environment

On panel VPCPSPM1 GDPS currently Displays the CTS would be nice if it conveyed the Current CTS PTS BTS and ARB .
over 5 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered