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Adding bookmark with double-click

Request for enhancement to facilitate features accessibility by enabling double-click to add bookmark in Cobol editor.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

ABENDS0C4 if fetchable PL/I program fetches itself

Main batch PL/I program abends with 0C4 and reason code 11, If a PL/I fetchable routine fetches itself with FETCH stament, and this fetchable routine is called by another fetchable program. So we think that this kind of usage can be controlled at ...
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

GUI to automatically create and Insert CEEOPTS DD for Batch JCL

Allow a customer to configure a default set of CEEOPTS options to start a Debug Tool session for VTAM% and TCPIP%. Automatically insert the CEEOPTS DD and inline TEST parameter with a right-click menu option from and edit session. The option to en...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

RDz to support JES joblog comparison

Support JES joblog comparsion. Users can highlight 2 joblog and can select "Compare wtih Each Other" in context menu. Make it same experience as compare dataset member.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Identification de l'erreur sur le modele RPP

Toute erreur sur le modele ne permet pas d'identfier la ligne en erreur . Erreur positionn? syst?matiqument sur la ligne 0
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Delivered

IMS "wsdl first" WebServices: Reduce size of DFSPWSH message header (i.e. @dfs_async_msg_header)

Every web service request and response contains a first segment to transfer meta data, i.e. the @dfs_async_msg_header included DFSPWSH. The size of this header is fix for every request/response and is more then 5KB, mainly because of large field d...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Delivered

IMS IVP Dialog - remove obsolete data sets

§ IXUMTRX = IMSSZ01.IMS131,,32760,CYL,1,1,46 MATRIX allocation parameters - HLQ,VOL,BLK,TYP,PRM,SEC,DIR § IXUMRXA = IMSSZ01.IMS131,,32760,CYL,1,1,46 MATRIXA allocation parameters - HLQ,VOL,BLK,TYP,PRM,SEC,DIR § IXUMRXB = IMSSZ01.IMS131,,32760,CYL,...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Delivered

64 Bit support for DTST

DTST does not support 64 BIT storage display
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Requesting Auto-Expand when navigating to -CD screen in RPPZ

In RPPZ when navigating to the -CD screen, you are forced to expand multiple times each line before seeing all of the data contents. It would be beneficial to have the screen automatically fully expand all lines.
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 7 Delivered

Bring Security errors from System Log to PDTCC job log and/or return to end-user

Currently, security errors in accessing the PDTCC are obscured from the end-user and technical support staff. Rather than being return to the user in the interface they utilized (either the actual security failure message or a message indicating a...
over 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Delivered