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Complete Formatting in Cobol/PL/1 module should give warning

Today when using the shortcut ctrl+shift+f PL/1 and Cobol editor (properly also LPEX) the formatter either takes selected text and formats, and if nothings is selected it will reformat it all. This is properly to be like the java editor, however C...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

DTSP EQAOPTS field works differently than command and pref file field

In the DTSP GUI and in the DTCN GUI, if you enter a commands and or preferences file including a hlq (eventually your own userid) it is overtaken correctly. If you set the EQAOPTS file, then always your userid is prefixed.
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Take advantage of SSD performance in TPF DASD utility parms

We have mods in our zTPF systems that allow more TPF mod Copies per cpu/complex and reduce the minimum wait IOTIME for TPF Capture.These changes were made when we went to SSD so that we could fully utilize the performance improvements in our envir...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Run RDz code coverage under a service account id

We submit test jobs through BMC CTMT mainly because our user id's do not have access to certain utilities (Safenet Token, Encryption, SFTP) and only our common service account userid has access to those apps. Consequently we cannot manually submit...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Delivered

[Wells Fargo] need of automaticMigration process for importJournal

Need of a specific automaticMigration.bat process adapted to the migration of the journal PACBASE (extracted by MIBJ); That means that this automaticMigration.bat generates: 1/ a location.txt file with an importJournal command in place of the impo...
about 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Improve CICS IA messages to clearly state when collection is starting, pausing or resuming due to timer controls

User had configured CICS IA V5.1 collector DEFAULTS for interdependency collection only ,however when CICS IA started, it also started collection for affinity even though it was not requested. The startup message CIU2258I showed HOUR OF DAY collec...
over 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

[Wells Fargo]Take into account the character & in MIAM

The permissiveness of Pacbase with batch processes, can lead to the creation of erroneous entities.In the case of Wells Fargo some entities have been created with a '&' character (segments 531& and 535& and session 0124T). These entiti...
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Recoup chain chase needs to handle wide/shallow databases

Recoup congestion on IRART CORHC when chain chasing wide/shallow databases caps recoup's ability to run at the MAX ECB rate defined and means there is no way to manage or improve chain chase runtimes. The congestion on the IRART is due to the fact...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

TEST(NONE,,,) support in remote

remote debug scenario does not support TEST(NONE..) functionality is needed
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Supress File Reference table listing in PL/1

Provide an option to suppress the File Reference Table listing generated by the Enterprise PL/1 Compiler.
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

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