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Improve COBOL OFFSET report usability

Without the OPTIMIZE option in earlier versions (or with OPT(0)), the location of the first instruction generated for each statement could then be used when debugging a failing program to accurately deduce the COBOL statement that was being proces...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Usage statistics for REXX programs running in NetView

The only available approach to get information of used resources is AUTOTASK based (commands TASKMON and TASKUTIL). This is not very useful to obtain precise information on how REXX programs inside NetView are performing.In order to determine if R...
about 10 years ago in IBM Z NetView 4 Delivered

OLSMS display refinements to storage group TOTALs

The current information displayed can be inaccurate when volumes in the storage group are in a Disabled or Quiesced state.
11 months ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

changed default for APPCMAX in DFSDCxxx

The default APPCMAX=(5000,1000000) in DFSDCxxx is too high. The value 64_bit_max should be much smaller, may be 0.With the current default IMS installations can end up with an IMS SBND (sick but not dead) situation. IMS storage is protected wherea...
about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Delivered

dynamic update of a policy without stopping CDP started tasks.

Today, when we update a policy, we have to stop start SDE, LF and DS to activate the changes. It's not acceptable in a production environment.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Delivered

Include TLS Level information in CICS performance data record

Currently for CICS regions that is not relying on TCPIP for security, the CICS performance data does not have the TLS level information that was selected during SSL Handshake for the incoming web requests. The CICS performance data should be exten...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

ASM property group needed for local z/OS Projects

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...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Cobol JSON PARSE to EBCDIC

It should be possible to parse a JSON that is in ebcdic. When using JSONs as a dynamic way to store data or to send data between mainframe applications, we always have to convert the generated JSON to EBCDIC and convert it back to UTF-8 in order t...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 8 Delivered

Large PIC9 fields not managed by z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit

The int type in Java can be used to represent any whole number from -2147483648 to 2147483647.Invocation of APIs fails when API is created using z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit from COPY vith big PIC9 fields.Swagger must be manually updated inserting ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

zUnit: We need to mix hyphen and underscores in the data items

We are trying to roll out zUnit but we got a problem with the data items. Our biggest customer builds his data items as a mix of hyphen and underscores. But as we read, those items are not allowed:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQ2R2...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

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