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COBOL facet - define an extension point at end of generation process in order to know the manual code on a tag

in some cases, we need to know the code manually set to a particular tag, in order to generate code in other locations.This would require an API at end of generation (after reconciliation) to be able to manipulate the manual code associated with a...
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

File Manager - change date format on panel FMNPFCH2 from YY/MM/DD to YYYY/MM/DD

When searching in the File Manager Find & Change utility on panel MFNPFCH2, the date format can be confusing to identify the correct file to do the search on being in the YY/MM/DD format. Our customer would find the utility less confusing on t...
about 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Double click to select/highlight word/text

On Windows-based applications, when one double clicks on a word, the entire word is selected. However, this does not happen on IBM Personal Communications. Please add this feature. - It is a significant productivity tool as it allows users to sele...
about 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 4 Delivered

AMODE Default with ELF32 Option

Currently, a missing AMODE, RMODE defaults to 24 on Linux on z, which is incompatible with the ELF32 option. These options could be set by the linkage editor on other operation systems but not on Linux. By giving a parameter option, this default b...
about 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Delivered

CICS 5.2 TYPE 2 DB2 Connection

I would like to be able to dynamically change the connection of a CTS region/regions to use a new DB2 subsystem.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

System headers are not warning free when using qinfo=all with XL C/C++ compiler

When checking our own C/C++ source code I wanted to see strict warning checking behavior, to improve our source code. When using -qinfo=all a lot of warnings are raised by both C and C++ compiler. This RFE just shows a simple example for the C com...
about 9 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 5 Delivered

MIAM enhancement : list maps not to generate

Our need is to have the list of maps that don't have to be generated at the migration from pacbase to RPP. ie maps with cards $$.Thank you
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Provide PL/I source listing when available, despite the severity of the error, when using LISTVIEW(SOURCE)

System: Enterprise PL/IActor: A developer Description: When developers compile a program with LISTVIEW(SOURCE) option, and the compiler finds a serious error in the source program, it shows the exact line number of this problem. But it doesn't sho...
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Fault analyzer plugin to support multiple codepage display in parallel

The current minidump view in FAZ plugin is shown in HEX + 1 user selected codepage. We'd like FAZ to support to shown HEX + EBCDIC + 1 user selected codepage in the same view
about 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

need a variable in RTC user build indicating that JCL has been generated from user build

Like RTC has the property ${personalBuild} to indicate that the build is a personal build, customer needs a similar property to indicate that the build is a user build.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered