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INQUIRE DFHTRANSACTION Threadsafe,

We are trying to cut back on TCB Swaps; I notice INQUIRE DFHTRANSACTION to do TCB swap; was wondering if this could be made THREADSAFE? There is a trace entry of TRANSFORMER; not sure what that is.... See trace snippit: L80AT RM 0302 RMLN EXIT SET...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

make INQUIRE REQID Threadsafe

We are interested in making INQ REQID Threadsafe. We are trying to cut back on some TCB swaps; I noticed this in the trace; TCB Swap upon entry exit of INQ REQID; Entry L8; Exit QR; then remains on QR for some time, until next DB2 or MQ request. 9...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Identify unused variables at 01 level with no subordinates

In IDz if I right click in the source code of a Cobol program and choose Refactor/Identify Unused variables, it doesn't identify those that are not at an 01 level.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Add a clause to limit Table SORT to first elements

The SORT instruction is used to sort a memory table, but the table may not have been fully populated and only the first elements of the table must be sorted. The SORT instruction should have a clause allowing to indicate which elements are to be s...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Add extensionpoints for test case project

We are using "IMS Transaction Test Case Project" as a tool to submit an IMS-transaction for debug. As today every developer needs to manually add testdata, What we suggest is an extensionpoint (i.e. MenuManager in IBM Developer for Z) that let us ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

IDz USS support for ENDEVOR

USS support for ENDEVOR which is already possible from the z/OS host ISPF environment should also be possible for the IDz client
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Support for CICS Transactions defined in CPSM

Application Discovery currently only supports definitions in CICS System Definition (CSD) either by connecting via zOS Mainframe Agent (specifying CICS Job and CSD file information) or by producing a CSD LIST format report on the mainframe, downlo...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Entreprise COBOL V6+ - IGYOS4081-U when MDECK(NOCOMPILE) + SQL options and no valid DBRMLIB

When compiling with MDECK(NOCOMPILE) and SQL options to resolve COPY and EXEC SQL INCLUDE, the compiler raises an IGYOS4081-U error if the DBRMLIB ddname is not declared, or if file associated with the DBRMLIB ddname does'nt have a valid format. T...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Allow copy/paste from/into Java TextForm Field

After downsize from EGL genned COBOL/CICS and frontend TextForm 3270 to EGL genned Java/Windows and frontend TextForm 3270, the customer lost the copy / paste functionality to TextForm field.
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Option for identifying unreachable and easily removable code.

We would like to suggest an option like the rules suboptions NOUNREF* for marking unreachable code.We are aware that compiling with OPT(2) will give us informationals for unreachable code, but sometimes it can be difficult to determine if the code...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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