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Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Keep the optimization of MOVE during the prolog program on the group data-items declared VOLATILE

Hi When the VOLATILE clause is present on a group zone that contains data-item with VALUE clauses (these data-items are constant and are never modified in procedure, these can be considered as a signature of the program), the optimization of the g...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Dynamically increasing Short message Queues

It is possible for an administrator to dynamically add page sets (which are basically message queues) to a running queue manager in WebSphere MQ (IBM product), or remove page sets from a running queue manager (except for page set zero). I was hopi...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

IMS display commands

When a dependent region cannot schedule a PSB due to a pool space failure, the IMS display commands ( such as /DIS A ) should identify which pool caused the schedule failure.This has already been done for EPCB pool but it would be useful for all t...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Verify Add of a ApplicationGroup should keep or abondon dependicies in case of a loop while adding

When adding an application to CP through ISPF panel EQQMAMOL causing a loop you get warned properly (not allowing the add). If you add an applicationgroup causing a loop, you only get a warning meesage in upper right corner. saying “DEP LOOP IN GR...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Uncommenting and Commenting Lines in PL/I Editor

In the Eclipse there is the possibility to comment out individual lines of code or entire blocks of code using the shortcut "Ctrl + 7".It would make working with RTC easier if there was a shortcut for the eclipse-based development of PLI in RTC.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Data Flow to include 88-clauses

The data flow tools don't measure the data flow for 88-clauses of variables although even the compiled assembler listing is identical. We expect the data flow also to handle 88-clauses as if they are a specific value of the main variable.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Support for BIFF8 and higher EXCEL file format specifications in IBM Personal Communications.

Currently IBM PCOMM supports BIFF (BIFF4 and BIFF5) for Data Transfer utility and Copy operations. PCOMM has to be enhanced to support higher EXCEL file formats.PMR 22610,999,760 was converted to case TS003171311.
over 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

IMS-Explorer is a very valuable tool. It should run under x86-Linux as well as under Windows

Currently the IMS Explorer is installable under Windows. It should be installable and run under x86 Linux as well.
over 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Identify or Track source code changes reference by ADI BRD pointers

Need a way to know that the under lying code referenced by Business terms/rules was modified. Currently the pointers might point to erroneous lines if code was modified. We would like someway to identify what original lines were if different then ...
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 1 Not under consideration

Enhance EYU9XEUT to delete data spaces for individual CMAS

Currently, the CICSPlex System Manager utility EYU9XEUT batch utility can be used to display various items of information about the Environment Services System Services (ESSS) on the image or terminate the address space proving the services. Shoul...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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