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CALLEXIT for checking Call Parameter Usage

It would be good to have a kind of "Call-Exit", which is called every time the compiler see a CALL Subroutine, but also "Procedure Division" or ENTRY-Statement.So we could build a dictionary for all Calls, knowing which program calls which subprog...
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

ZSDEA modifications to support FENCED OFF file pool support

ZSDEA Modifications - Allow file pool "FENCING OFF" or the ability to de-activate a range of ordinals without requiring RAMFIL DE-ACTIVATION updates to the FACE TABLE. IBM's RAMFIL parameter is used to indicate if a pool segment is going to be dea...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

RDz - Editors Compare results sharing and save

In RDz Editors , Compare is much better than what we have had on the Host systems SUPERC or File Manager compare , especially for the source code comparisons. We would like to have the ability to save the comparison results to a file, which we cou...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Display current and diagnostic data of BUSED/BLOG

Z/TPF System needs diagnostic tools to display and analyze the status of Globals @@BUSED and @@BLOG, as well as the ordinal data for each processor. This data is very useful during activities such as processor de-activations, planned outages, File...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Reconciliation between Listing line number and Source line number

We are in the process of deploying the implementation of a DevOps approach on the mainframe. In particular, we want to implement code coverage and unit test follow-ups (automated tests). Market tools, especially the SonarQube tool, work with the S...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

IRE - Add feature to allocated OLDS 98 and 99

Noticed during DR exercises OLDS 98 and 99 are not added to #S02 recovery job to be reallocated in DR systems. Would it be possible to have IRE to reallocate them if the datasets exists on the live systems? All 259 IMS regions in customer's system...
10 months ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Define sub-type SMF record in the extractor parameters

In the param file of the IZDS Extractor, we use the SMFREC parameter to define SMF record type to collect. We would like todefine sub-type of SMF record with ZCPA.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Not under consideration

make JSON-builtin non UTF-8 compatible

Whenever we use the jsonGet* oder jsonPut* function we always have to convert it from or to EBCDIC(1148) to UTF-8(1208) as we store and send this structure in Db2 Tables and on MQ and we don't want to convert it at two different places.Therefore i...
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Update CICS/PA to utilize zIIPs

The product should be enhanced to offload to zIIPs to reduce the hardware cost of implementation.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Generate Swagger file in YAML format

For outbound services, zos connect supports swagger in both JSON and YAML format. Is it possible as well for Inbound Services we can make some configuration to state if the generated Swagger should be in JSON or YAML format.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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