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Advanced RULES(NOUNREF)

For Quality of Source, we would like to have a Compilermessage not only for Unreferenced Automatic Variables, but also for all other unreferenced types.Please always check the usage. IF the rules are true, put a compilermessage out instead to the ...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

IDz DBCS does not recognize empty SOSI or SISO inside

In unicode conversion from host, SO (x0E) and SI (x0F) characters are stripped off. They are inserted back when saving back to host.DBCS character conversion does not work as expected with certain sequential combinations of SO and SI. In some case...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Include same MD5 signature in load module as in dwarf data

Include in the load module the same MD5 signature that the compiler is currently writing to the DWARF data and in so doing allow verification of matching load module and DWARF data. Needed for Cobol 5+.
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Add Max Capacity Line Cognos reports

Would enable users to understand when CEC Usage is approaching the max MIPS/MSUs available on the processor.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Delivered

COBOL Compilers - implement RULES(NOLAXDEFINE)

In case TS003867482 the support asks to open this RFE.Implement a RULES(NOLAXDEFINE) that will flag disagreements in structure length at the 01-level, something that's not being done by the compiler currently.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Provide a new CARMA setting to disable automatic ENQ lock on elements

Beginning with IDz server v14.0, CARMA automatically issues an ENQ lock when editing an element. This introduces a problem later down stream for some customers with the "Preview JCL" option when the user attempts to perform a CARMA "Save and Gener...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Delivered

Improve function to suppress writing x'99' logs for updates conducted by IIDR Target Server

MUFG bank is planning replication in both direction ( Source <-> Target) using IIDR for IMS , so the settings to enable write out of x'99' log is same for Target System and Source System.However within the x'99' log, the logs which are writt...
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 2 Delivered

Provide additional Dojo Mobile capabilities

Rational Business Developer release 9.0.1 brought us the first officially supported Dojo Mobile capabilities in EGL. It was a great start. Additional capabilities are needed before software developers can utilize EGL to develop commercial products...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Delivered

Allow z/OS requester to ignore fields not defined to the service

Currently we have requestor that calls a mulesoft service. The mule service was updated to add new fields but the z/OS connect service was not. As a result the requester fails as it doesnt know about these fields. The z/OS connect service doesn't ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Wildcard usage for data set libraries for the DSC monitor

Keyword LIBRARIES() should support data set name masking
about 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered