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GDS 64K cylinder restriction

With GDS support you are limited to 64K cylinders (2 byte field) per dataset. This maxes out at a 46G file. This restriction needs to be lifted due to increasing file size.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

The findText function in the ISPF/LPEX editor does not behave like the FIND command in the ISPF editor.

The find command in the ISPF/LPEX should work with only one column specified like the ISPF editor command. Mainframe programmers familiar with the ISPF editor expect similar functionality out of the ISPF/LPEX find command.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Hold low priority SIPCC items until 1052 state.

Hold the processing of low priority IPC items until the system reaches 1052 state. In our loosely-coupled systems, particularly in PSS we had experienced application SIPCC items which come from up and running processors interfering the system IPL....
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

User area in SS clock record (#IBMMS, ordinal #ST0TMON)

HP zTPF systems have a few global fields that contain next Spring and Fall time change day. Tens of Sabre APPS use these fields along with today's date (@U1DAY) to determine if today belongs in DST or not. It is hard to pursue Sabre to change thei...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

IMS Catalog size estimate-COPYBOOKs are not currently included in estimate

The IMS Catalog database size estimating process only includes the PSB & DBD info.    Those are tiny compared to my COPYBOOK members.    They are HUGH.    I have sent examples to developers in the past during othe...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 6 Not under consideration

Alter DEDB online without a two stage randomizer

We want to resize DEDBs databases online without using a two stage randomizer.
almost 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Autosave in PL/I and JCL editor

In LPEX there are an autosave facility. This is not the case for PL/I and JCL editors. Our users want this feature because they want a local save of the file in the editor. In z/OS Project we use mainframe files, but an autosave should go to the d...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

RDz should facilitate easier export/import specific test data from DB2 databases.

Rational Developer for System z should facilitate to export specifictest data from source (dev/test) databases and import this data intotarget (test/dev) databases. Currently the database Export/Import functionality is aimed at savingand restoring...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

JSF message components & EGL sysLib.setError()

The JSF Tag Attributes include errorClass,errorStyle,fatalClass,fatalStyle,infoClass,infoStyle,warnClass,warnStyle that can be associated with h:messages. EGL write to FacesMessage using sysLib.setError(). This method should be enhance to provide ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

RDz CARMA support long file name in Endevor

RDz does not yet have support for CA Endevor long names, it can now only support up to 10 characters. However Endevor allow long file name since v7 in 2005. All the existing long file name element in Endevor cannot be interface with CARMA now.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

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