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Missing/missplaced compiler message

In Cobol versions pre V5 the IGY compiler messages for discarded code are displayed:- in the listing directly after the affected Cobol statements for each discarded code parts - in the summary at the end of the output. With Cobol V5 only one messa...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Automating cached files cleaning

I would like to have the cached files deletion to be handled automatically within RDz client V9.5.1 to avoid any files crash behavior, probably due with cached files.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Add new "Process Option" to suppress returncode 28 of empty compare and/or search-for

Why we would like to be able to specify a new "Process Option" like EMPTYOK, so that SuperC, SuperCE, Search-For and Search-ForE (ISRSUPC) ends with returncode 0 instead of 28 in case of zero compare or zero search-for (e.g. after filtering).
about 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 6 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Enhancement to Batched Repository Update Feature

Please enhance the new Batched Repository Update Job Operation function to accept a numeric Print Class. Numeric print classes should be valid and the WUI accepts them.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

Possibilty to hide BADHEX messages in Audit logs

The possibility to hide the numerous BADHEX messages in audit.log
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Requesting ADABAS / Natural support in IMS

Request for ADABAS / Natural support in IMS
about 8 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Delivered

Cobol editor should prevent "save" action if data is entered after column 80

Customer is running RTC 602 and RDz 951. When a developer types Cobol source after column 80 with COBOL Editor, the save action and the RTC check-in/Deliver are permitted. When compiling with RTC, the translator ends in error with a truncation err...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

User exit to support Query Reply

When the VSS Option Query passthru is active, I would like the opportunity to inspect and alter the Reply sent to the target application
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

(TPFUG) > 2042 TOD support - New APIs to assist in remediation strategies

The STCK/STCKF 8 byte format TOD will wrap in 2042. To help customers remediate issues in their code as early as possible and to avoid customers writing additional code that subsequently needs remediation, we would like IBM to provide new datatype...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Introduction of the SCOPE= parameter in SMU

We noticed the lack of a 'SCOPE=' parameter when stopping resources from the SMU environment. When using the TN3270 we're able to do a INGREQ with the 'SCOPE=CHILDREN' parameter which seems to be missing in the SMU Environment. We would like to se...
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Delivered

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