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-CD tab scrolling is difficult with many lines.

For programs with many -CD lines, the scrolling bars do not cover the entire list. The actual window pane needs to be resized to see the rest of them.
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

-GE table is too wide

The -GE tab of the screen design editor does not need to be as wide as it is. There are only 4 fields. See the attached image showing that even when I maximize my editor, I need to use the bottom scrollbar to get to the vertical scrollbar.
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

ZIFIL should support Last or End ordinal

Currently, the ZIFIL command requires the user to explicitly indicate the starting and ending ordinals of a record type that they want to initialize. We want to be able to specify all (or remainder if start =/= 0) records of a record type need to ...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

64bit redirector's thread limitation change

Change the limitation of thread / connection per 1 redirector (64bit) Thread : 4000 / Connection 2000 In addition, we would like to know the relation the parameter and the limit of connections (DTMThreadCount/Java HEAP and so on)
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Delivered

DFDL improvement to not having to specify the length for variable length

DFDL improvement to not having to specify the length for variable length fields during serialization that would involved DFDL hidden groups and outputValueCalc
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide ability to resize the Scratch Pad

The Scratch Pad is a fixed size relative to the whole window size. Need the ability to change the width of the scratch pad relative to the terminal window.
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Delivered

Better compiler output on missing or superfluous "END", ")", ";"

I still sometimes miss or add one too much "END", ";" or ")".Those typos are really hard to find in large programs as the compiler in most cases only provides e.g. a "the END statement has no matching BEGIN...". I'm aware that PL/I as a language a...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

Extra throttling mechanism to check system resources before accepting more MongoDB traffic

As discussed and was suggested in PMR 65447 a user exit is needed to check system resources ensuring new message can be handled and the system is healthy and has enough resources before processing new incoming MongoDB message.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Debug tool profiles DTCN

Banco do brasil is using DTCN to define profiles to Debug Tool. They used before CADP transaction. Now they are having difficult to find profiles. The DTCN Transaction is different than CADP. They are complaing that the DTCN doesn't allow a parame...
over 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

CSV export of the content of the Generation Manager view

It should be possible to export the content of the Generation Manager view in CSV format, like for search results.
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

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