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performance improvement for zd&t

Customers found zd&t very slow particularly running Java/WAS workloads. They asked that zd&t be changed to support more than 1 channel so that more than 1 concurrent i/o could be run if the Linux disk subsystem supported it.
over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Delivered

EQAOPTS option EQAXOPT DLAYDBGTRC and Tracelevel in EQAD3CXT should have an option to suppress evaluating trace entries

The customers (i.e.) Fiducia are using trace level2 either in EQAD3CXT or EQAOPTS, because if the Debug Tool does not start up, they can see exactly what the user did wrong, but the system Log and Job log are flooded with other evaluating messages...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 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.
almost 9 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...
almost 9 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 ...
almost 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 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...
almost 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

Expand new REGEX (regular expression) built-in function to support extended metacharacters

We would like to have the extended metacharacters supported via the new REGEX (regular expression) built-in function. This request bases on the RFE 112083 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=112083
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Warn if creating Data Sets, that can't be used with ISPF Editor

Please add a warning when allocating a data set in remote systems view with a) LRECL>32760 for fixedb) LRECL > 32756 for variablec) BLKSIZE <> 0 or no exact multiple of LRECL for F / LRECL+4 for V
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 3 Delivered

Flag packed fields with even number of digits

The compiler should flag numeric packed field definitions with even numbers. E.g. S99 packed decimal should be flagged.
almost 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Delivered

CICS configuration elements that need USS paths should allow use of symbols

All CICS configuration elements, whether housed in CSD, CPSM, or USS files, that require or permit the specification of a USS path value should permit the use of symbols in that value. For example, on the CONFIGFILE parameter of a PIPELINE definit...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

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