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RFE of formatting support for multi-byte COBOL editor

When I use Developer for System z, the following limitation is written. Windows>Preferences>COBOL>Editor>Formatter Indentation Tab : "Note : Indentation formatting is supported for single bytes character set source encoding only" I'd l...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

Auto refresh for CICS Explorer displays

For various displays on CICS Explorer, e.g. alerts, running regions, current tasks, I'd like to be able to get the display to automatically refresh at a set interval, in the same way as you can in CPSM and MQ Explorer.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

Government issued subscriptions for using nicotine, alcohol and cannabis products.

Researchers would benefit from this idea. Also, Governments and Consumers will benefit by implementing a more classy society. Not only that, governments and companies that invest in this idea will make a huge amount of reoccurring income! It’s ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Not under consideration

AD Build Decisions for PL/I source code

See PMR number 31216 999 624:We are using Application Discovery Build Client to build AD projects for applications (mainly) written in PL/I. I noticed the 'Decisions' feature in the Build Client is not supported for PL/I source code, only for COBO...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

To enable viewing of JCL Control Cards in AD Analyze Client

National Australia Bank has requested for the ability to view contents of JCL Control Files in the Explore Project functionality or JCL expansion.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Supersession issues with Swedish national characters

Hello Team, we have migrated from TPX to supersession. Our Swedish colleagues are complaining that when they use Swedish characters they are converted to Danish characters and thus their systems will fail search attempts and so on. One of the cpmp...
about 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE should be protected separately

Provide a mechanism to separate out the permission for performing a normal shutdown vs any other, such as immediate.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

New QUOTREM() builtin

There are times when both the quotient and remainder of a division are important, such as when working with times, where it may be far more convenient to work with minutes or even seconds, then directly with the unwieldy hh:mm[:ss] format.
about 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

AD and report list customization

Sun Life Insurance is interested in a capability where they could hide/show reports available in the report list according to their convenience. Also, Sun Life would like to have the feature to rename the reports available in AD report list to som...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Remote SYSID returned to caller after DPL (SHARE requirement SSCICS11013)

CICS should return the region/sysid/applid where the DPL request actually ran to the caller. Debugging and diagnositics will become much easier, especially in large shops that have dozens or even hundreds of AOR regions. The SYSID could be provide...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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