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XMLCHAR BIF unable to generate tagless text

The XMLCHAR() builtin function is able to mark fields as being attributes via the XMLATTR attribute, but there is no facility for generating field content without enclosing it in tags.
about 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Be able to change default to YES for leading zeros in numeric fields globally or by userid

FM does not currently have the ability to set the default to display leading zeroes on the Field Attribute panel (FMNPRDS3).
about 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Delivered

RPPZ DataElement Search by Floating numeric

See PMR 77040,379,000. Would be useful to perform a server advanced design search for dataelements by floating numeric type. i.e. search for elements with a picture clause of pic 9(7)V99. Currently, only numeric type INTEGER exists.
about 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Inhibit DB011B and DB0108 dumps in MOD down condition

PM97115 was recently released to inhibit DB0100 dumps in a MOD down scenario. We would like the same for DB011B and DB0108 dumps when MOD down. The DB0100 dumps that were eliminated with PM97115 had been involved with a system outage 08/05/13 - th...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

Provide option to suppress native CICS Transaction Dumps after successful Fault Analyzer invocation of EXEC CICS DUMP

Provide an option where, after a successful invocation of Fault Analyzer, the native CICS Transaction Dump from an EXEC CICS DUMP command is suppressed, as it is for an EXEC CICS ABEND command.
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

getCurrentCallStack() to be implemented in libraries

RBD 9.0.1Using the new v90x getCurrentCallStack() sysLib function returns as describes in the documentation when implemented in a program ie"dynamic array of EglCallStack records that provide the currently executing list of programs in the run uni...
about 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Delivered

Allow User created Snippets to use exising plugins

Existing Snippets that are available as part of RPP are stored in plugins, which, allow the user to manage the positioning of the code. When the developer creates Snippets, the code positioning is not handled the same way as when the developer use...
about 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Toolkit 4.2 on MS Server 2008

Would like to see TPF Toolkit work on Microsoft Server 2008.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

Enhance FA Plugin to automatically populate views

The FA/ISPF interface on z/OS can maintain a list of Views that are available to all FA/ISPF users. This enhancement would request that this prepopulated list is passed from FA on z/OS to the FA Plugin in an Eclipse environment to aid users in hav...
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhance IDIS subsystem to accept passed parameter for IDIHIST

Enhance the IDIS subsystem to accept a passed IDIHST file specification.
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered