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Enterprise COBOL 6.4+ - Add sub-options to CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) option to be more agressive in removing of lines concerned by conditional compilation

Hi, The CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) compilation option allows to remove lines in compilation listing of code excluded by conditional compilation. Despite this, there may still be many lines related to conditional compilation present in the compilation listi...
11 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

Prompt for a formula field should include field description.

When using the Statistics Alert Definition panel to enter a new alert, the prompt key (PF4) allows you to see and select the field name. After selecting the field, only the field name is added to the panel. It would be nice if the field descriptio...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Parenthesis are not highlighted in IDz COBOL editor (compared to TSO)

In TSO (ISPF editor), when parenthesis number is not rational (insufficient or in excess), the problematic parenthesis is highlighted in pink. In IDz (COBOL editor), there is no highlighted for this exact same problem. We wish we can have a clear ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Future consideration

Provide IZTA support for DB2 Tables with name more than 8 Characters

IZTA only support DB2 tables with name up to 8 characters. Requesting IZTA to support tables with more than 8 characters. This will avoid the programming changes needed to map the IZTA tables in the application. 1-O-1 mapping with the same name in...
11 months ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Planned for future release

When recording the zUnit test cases, the folder should be defaulted to JCL folder and not the PROGRAM folder

Since we have a JCL folder for zUnit, when ever we do start recording, it should point to JCL folder in default, which will help developer avoid manual selection and its time consuimg as well.
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

zUnit test case prefix is actually not required and its creating some other issues

Test case perfix overridng other program test cases and its a very high potential issue
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

While creating the test case, after we selected "Multiple folder" option, IDZ need to set all the folder name automatically.

Eacn and every time, we need to select manually after we select the option "Multiple folder" and its very time consuming as well. If this is fixd, it would be very helpful to developers.
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

New System Automation Policy Report for Runtokens

System Automation had RUNTOKENS introduced with release 3.4. However, there is a need to visualize which RUNTOKENS exist for a system and which APL's have which RUNTOKENS currently assigned.This should be done as a Policy Database Report.This is t...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

iDz 'Debug Configurations' option does not work on JCL that is based on JCL procedures that has more than one step

We have found out that when using ‘Debug Configurations’ option ‘z/OS Batch Application using existing JCL’ we cannot get it working when JCL itself is based on JCL procedures if there are more steps in the JCL.
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Compiler support for +80 character lines

With the release of the IBM Z Open Editor for Visual Studio Code, more IBM COBOL is edited in an editor not limited by 80 characters.We request an option to the z/OS COBOL compiler, to be able to read COBOL code without a limit of 80 characters.An...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration