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Discrepancy for column timestamp in table DS_ACTIVITY_%

Recently we started to use the Data Set Component. Something seems strange with the column timestamp used in tables DS_ACTIVITY_%. The only timestamp collected is the one of job start time, that is from fields SMF14RSD,SMF14RST. But for a long run...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

Owner filter on "DTCN Server Profile" list

Should be located for PD Tools - Debug Tool, but can't find category. Please remove this when reallocated. It should possible in the DTCN Server Profile view to set up a filter on userids. Today it's possible to type your userid in the list, but f...
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

AT ENTRY behavior between TIM and GUI - Improve GUI to automatically pick up the loadmod name as the TIM does.

When the load module is different from the program name, the AT ENTRY statement can be entered in the GUI as AT ENTRY programname. This is recognized for any load module, after the LDD is done. In the GUI, you must enter AT ENTRY loadmod::>pgmn...
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Add pane to SET QUALIFY CU in the GUI Modules Pane

Developers often have subprograms that they may want to view and set breakpoints prior to invoking the load of the program module. This can be accomplished today via the SET QUALIFY CU pgmname, or SET QUALIFY CU loadmod::>pgmname in the Debug T...
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Prime / Dupe Comparison is needed

One of the last steps in the ODBR procedure is for ODBR to do a prime / dupe comparison of old and new locations. Presumably, the purpose being to ensure integrity of the ODBR data movement and shadow copy process. This assumes there were no discr...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Multiple Release Detection - Less I/O better Reporting

Sabre feels that the current MRD process is I/O intensive and is reactive vs. proactive. The new design should find faults and report for the correction of issues vs. only providing protection. Current process retrieves, reads and files for each R...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

RD&T support Linux on Power

I request that RD&T supports Linux on power system (Power8).<Product>IBM Rational Development and Test Environment for System v9<Request support platform>Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6.5 on Power
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Requeue Interval Control Elements in case of an AOR shutdown

When an application-owning region within a CICSplex workload is terminated, any existing region-related interval control request (a result of START TRANSID INTERVAL, e.g.) will be cancelled. However, the CICSplex workload remains active. We would ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Flag -GO lines during software analysis

Would it be possible to flag any design entities that have -GO lines during Software Analysis? The -GO for DATPRO is no longer needed and it would be good to see a warning if that line of code is still there.
about 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Carriage control requirement

Update CICS TDQ carriage control to write more than once. Please refer to SR 36828,7TD,000 and 90093,7TD,000 for details.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

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