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Cobol - New Reserved Words to reduce hard coding

My suggestion is Cobol should have two new reserved words containing the currently executing Section / Paragraph name i.e. CURRENT-SECTION / CURRENT-PARAGRAPH (both would have an implicit picture clause X(30). Typically this would be useful in err...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Possibility to import data in subsets

Subsets are a powerfull option to be able to build parts of your system. I can make subsets in various ways, but what I would like to have is the possibility to import data from a .csv file. I can export a subset to a .csv and edit it in excel, bu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Allow dynamic setting of database name and datastore name in IMS DB connectionFactory

Currently the IMS DB connectionFactory is unique to each datastore and database (PSB). So if your zOS Connect server supports five API serviced by IMS DB connections and they use five different PSB as they are application specific then you would n...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS to provide an application setting that indicates the success level of a transaction

Business analytics requires knowing more about a transaction than just the CPU and elapsed time. The only current indicator of success is the abend code, which is too coarse an indicator. Did the transaction complete successfully? To what degree? ...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add a LOCATE and FIND facilities to Syntax Checker

Since DFSPBxxx with the last IMS Versions has become a quite big Memeber, not always easy to navigate into, the availability of LOCATE and FIND funtions would help i.e. in finding a specific parameter. - Please change the visibility of this RFE to...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

zappbuild Assembler.groovy DD updates

For Assembler.groovy to work in my environment I have had to make the following modifications. I think these for fit nicely into the zappbuild application We use SYSTERM linkedit parm and would like it to optionally print along with the other prin...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Provide a DB2 user thread cancellation process within ITOM for DB2 REORG and Shutdown purposes.

DB2 reorgs on the ITOM tables and indexes can fail if a user - say an operator - that can't be cancelled is using ITOM. Also, the DB2 subsystem cannot be shut down for maintenance. We would like a feature built into the ITOM started task shutdown ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable Super Session Modify command responses to be interrogated by Netview

When we were running ISM we had several automation scripts that required responses to be interrogated to determine if the commands were successful. We attempted to duplicate these scripts for KLS and were unsuccessful. We opened a case with IBM an...
about 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

BAQCSTUB for Batch should use BAQOUT DD for messages

The z/OS (Batch) version of BAQCSTUB writes error messages to a dynamically created DD SYSOUT - We would like this to be consistent with the CICS version of the utility that writes to BAQOUT.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Message in CTL region indicating that 64-bit log buffers have successfylly been enabled.

After the 64-bit log buffers (BUFSTOR=64) have been enabled there should be a message written in the CTL region indicating that the buffer has successfully been enabled in a similar way that is done for the FPBP64.It would be beneficial if the val...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

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