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Software Analysis : code review rules for C programs

Many rules are defined for COBOL, PL1 or JAVA programs, but none for C programs.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

Historical data tables have a unique index.

Historical tables created by Warehouse on DB2 zOS do not have a unique index. Making query performance worse. The idea is to create a unique index, such as a highly accurate writing timestamp, or sequential keys. Or even ensuring that the combina...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM z/OS Debugger 64bit Support

・Decrease E-private usage when taking code coverage of processes which runs many PL/I programs When we take code coverage, E-private usage for the address space used by z/OS Debugger increases depending on the number of running program.Therefore w...
almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Allow symbol substitution in CICS reading the LE runtime options

Provide symbol substitution in CICS process the LE Runtime Options module to allow for abstraction of certain values outside the module. For instance, the CEE_DMPTARG value specifying a USS Directory Path in the JVMProfile can then be substituted ...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

IBM Migration Utility to generate other Languages

IMU currently ingests Easytrieve Plus or Easytrieve Class programs and generates IBM Enterprise COBOL. Customer would like to see IMU generate Java.
10 months ago in IBM Migration Utility for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Policy based routing for API Requesters

We would like the ability to use policy based routing to direct API Requesters to specific API Connect endpoints. I believe this would involve adding a new valid property for use for API Requesters. For example: EndpointConnectionRefThe ID of the ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

TYPE56FA TLS Transaction Level Statistics Log Record does not show the actual Input Queue Time for PtP switches

The actual Transaction Input Queue Time can not be taken from TYPE56FA Log Records for PtP Messages processing.Field TPINUTC, that Customer wants to subtract from field TPSTARTU to get the Input Queue Time, is in fact the Timestamp when the first ...
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

Update DFSFDLS0 to disable OPTCD=W for virtual tape subsystems

Please make the changes for IMS to allow me to disable OPTCD=W for tape logging with a parameter in //DFSVSAMP a permanent feature of IMS. This was originally released to the IMS population as a usermod created by Dave Viguers. It needs to be buil...
about 8 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Echo ctg.ini to STDOUT as is STDENV and Policy Rule data

For historical purposes of prior executions of the CTG, Echo ctg.ini to STDOUT as is STDENV and Policy Rule data. If a problem pops up, it would be good to have the ctg.ini file archived to STDOUT, along with all the other gateway configuration pa...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS - In SMF performance records, supply the target program in mirror transaction

Senario: Program performs X a DPL to program Y. In the mirror task in the remote region the 1st program is DFHMIRS and it will link to program Y. Unfortunately, program Y is not reported by SMF performance records.My request is to always report th...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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