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Permit the use of % (Generical) in CP_BUSINESS_APPL Lookup table columns

It is not possible the use of % in CP_BUSINESS_APPL Lookup table columns. This is causing an error in the update of CP_CPU_WKLDA_T table, once the column "BUSINESS_APPL" in CP_CPU_WKLD_T table is updated by the code: W_BUS = VALUE(LOOKUP BUSINESS_...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Delivered

Missing context menu for EXEC SQL CALL

When calling a stored procedure with "exec sql call" no context menu (View, Browse, Edit) to jump to the source (here a stored procedure source) is offered.See: missing context menu call_sp_1.jpg. If I call a "normal" Cobol program in the source, ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 7 Delivered

New builtin IFTHENELSE

a new builtin IFTHENELSE(expr, truepart, falsepart) should evaluate the expr and returns the truepart or the falsepartthe returned datatype depends on the coded parts (e.g. bit, alphanumeric or numeric datatype) nested use of IFTHENELSE should be ...
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Improve UUID4 Performance

We are now generating hundreds of millions of GUIDs using the COBOOL UUID4 function. ANY performance improvements in the future will definitely be appreciated. I am a capacity planner and prior to recommending the function to the application teams...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Disallow edit/save of PDSE generated members

Add a site-wide option to not allow users to save changes to a non-zero PDSE generation (-1, -2, etc.). Also be able to restrict the SAVE NOGEN option. We need to secure these options and not allow users to change the options. Ideally these option...
about 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

Need EBCDIC code page conversion check in COBOL and PLI editor

When using local projects to develop COBOL or PLI then files are UTF8 encoded and it is possible to add characters that cannot be mapped later on to an EBCDIC code page. It will be good if a warning could be enabled to flag those characters.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Compiler options enhancements

Virtually every release of Enterprise PL/I adds new compiler options. It would be useful if the full list could be included in a member (pxoptXXX?) in the ' IELxxx.SIBMZSAM' sample library in a format that can be directly used by a PARM=('+DD:PLIS...
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

FA to warn on source mismatch if NOLIST option was on

FA usually does a check if a compiler listing matches the module in storage or not. This is done by comparing the last few instructions in te listing with the last instructions in the loaded module. But FA can't do this check for COBOL if the NOLI...
about 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Create z/OS Project from Git Repo root

Currently you can create a Z/OS Project from the eGIT Repositories with a right-click on a sub-folder in a Git Repo. As some organizations have a multi-repo strategy, it should be possible to create the z/OS Project from the Git Repo Root folder.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Delivered

Information about "source complexity"

The Cobol V5-Compiler is able to lower the specified optimization level if the source is "too complex", a compiilation with the specified optimization level would take to long. I would like to have the Enterprise PL/1 compiler compute a "complexit...
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

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