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Permit named PUSH/POP statements

When the assembler reaches an END statement, and there remains unPOP'd PUSH USINGs, it issues ASMA138W . Well, in large complex assemblies, finding the unPOP'd PUSH or PUSHs can be rather a challenge. In my own coding, I have solved that by replac...
over 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

Fully support 32-bit EQUs (maybe even 64-bit EQUs as well)

The assembler's support of 32-bit EQUs is arcane, to say the least. Consider: EQU1 EQU X'80000000' EQU2 EQU X'80000000'+1 EQU3 EQU X'7FFFFFFF'+1 The EQU1 and EQU2 statements are fine.The EQU3 statement gets flagged with ASMA074E. I do understand t...
over 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration

CRTE to re-drive logon Screen

When we have SEC=YES and XTRAN=YES in CICS regions, when we jump between regions using CRTE, CICS doesn't give a logon screen but it expects us to use CESN manually and long-on. It would be helpful if CICS can drive the logon screen if it expects ...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

FARF6 fixed file for traditional TPF databases

Most of our databases are zTPFDF. Our database growth is primarily FARF6. Our pools control records are FARF5. With each pool gen we must increase the various pools control records allocations, requiring additional UFT/FTI5 pairs. We are exhaustin...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

To implement the REFRESH RACF command via PIF/OCL o WAPL function.

To activate RACF sub resources, only option 9.6 in TWS is available. There are chances to use 9.5 mistakenly. To avoid this, if there is an option in WAPL or PIF, it would be more usefull. Raised case for this, i was suggested to refresh RACF reso...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

COBOL Editor Toggle Comment

Toggle Comment function isn't able to return to previous state. Sample: If you use toggle comment (CTRL+/) for several marked lines and there was already a commented line in one of those lines, the result may not be the expected one. In that case,...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Future consideration

Push to client support is needed for "local" z/OS project property groups

We are looking into introducing a “modern” toolchain including IDz – git – IBM DBB... and are now working with a POC.If the POC is successful it could in the future replace our existing “toolchain” that completely resides on z/OS.When we work with...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

SCRATCHPAD inhibit

For security reasons we have been asked to inhibit the following pcomm menu option: Actions- Launch - Scracht Pad How can this be done?
10 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Support for EXPORT when parsing JCL in zUnit

When zUnit is pasring a JCL for recording which includes "EXPORT SYMLIST=*" you get an error "EQA3140E Invalid input: EXPORT" Since a lot of our existing JCLs are useing EXPORT it would be nice if supprt for it was included in zUnit instead of nee...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Show progress when copying multiple files in USS

The progress bar currently goes crazy when copying multiple big files from USS.It seems to handle progress well only when copying a single file.When copying multiple files, it seems to jump from one to the next very quickly, which makes it impossi...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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