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Add additional report to view the unused variables in a program

Is it possible to see the unused variables in the program? Variables which are just declared and never used in the program. Currently developer can be able to see the unused procs in the program in report "unused routines within program".
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Define variable for CLOB data type in EGL program

This is to resolve an issue we raised in Case number TS010545379. We have been asked to raise a RFE to provide a new feature to bring resolution to the issue. The feature is to define variable for CLOB data type in EGL program. From the case accor...
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

Ability to manually disable protective mechanisms like QHA

This is to request manual ability to disable various protective mechanisms in GDPS, for example automatic QHA on GDPS/PPRC resynch/failback. We recently had an issue PMH 13736 BR 122 where pathgroups were left online to an LPAR that was already do...
about 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

RDz client should bring EXEC SQL INCLUDEs in addition to COPY statement files when "Show Expanded Source" is selected.

In RDz client 9.5 when a COBOL program is brought into COBOL editor, selecting "Show Expanded Source" does not bring in the EXEC SQL INCLUDEs. It only brings the files indicated by COPY statements.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

customizable values in the generated JCL

The size of the files for generation of JCL (e.g. for Compile Link Debug) is hard coded. That should be customizable.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Future consideration

Migration assistance for PDS to PDSE

To replace CA PDSMAN many customers will be required to migrate from PDS to PDSE. A panel dialog that will assist them and a batch process for larger migration would assist the end users with this process
about 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Not under consideration

Allow limited scope surrogate permissions for CICS

Allow for a surrogate permission, such as *.DFHSTART with access of READ, to be limited in scope to a CICS transaction, program, or both. Such granularity in allowing a surrogate permission is not available today.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Track availability for multi-LPAR subsystems

Please allow tracking for multi-LPAR subsystems other than SYSPLEX. As long as one member of a multi-system resource or subsystem is available, there was no outage.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Externalize the DFSDFxxx PROCLIB values at IMS initialization

Externalize the DFSDFxxx PROCLIB values at IMS initialization. Currently the FastPath section of DFSDFxxx member is externalized when IMS starts, but we would like the ability to view the remainder of the parameters, to identify what was used at I...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Stop/Quiesce Shared TS Servers in a controlled manner

There is currently no facility to quiesce activity in Shared TS servers in order to shut them down in a controlled manner. A CANCEL command is required to stop Shared TS servers.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration