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Adopt Dataname Picture and Usage in Mainframe COBOL

It would be extremely useful, and would help to prevent logic errors, if the COBOL compiler would allow a dataname to adopt the PICTURE and USAGE from another dataname at compile time. At execution time, logic errors (and even abends) can occur in...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

Modification of the KPMZ_CPUMF* table's TIME column definition

KPMZ_CPUMF* tables, derived from SMF 113, have a TIME column corresponding to the time of writing the SMF Record (End of interval), unlike any tables from the SMF7x Records (Example : KPMZ_LPAR_T) where the TIME column corresponds to the time of b...
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Debugging from IDz: timeout configuration improvements

As an administrator I need a mechanism to configure some timouts to limit the duration of an idle IDz debugging session. Currentily, timeout can be configured in the IDz (Preferences>Run/Debug>Compiled Debug>Debug Session Timeout), but it...
10 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Dynamically switch between Global Mirror and Metro Mirror

Barclays would like the ability to dynamically switch a Global Mirror relationship to a Metro Mirror relationship managed by GDPS. This would allow us to perform a Site Swap without a sysplex outage
over 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

LPAR/System Status Tracking within GDPS

GDPS will keep track the statu of the LPAR/System and display in the Standard Actions Panel. When a user perform an action against a LPAR/system, the status will change accordingly (e.g. after using GDPS to activate an LPAR, the status will change...
over 7 years ago in GDPS 13 Not under consideration

Make INGVARS values accessible from Automation Table

Similar to ATF('DSICGLOB varname'), having System Automation shared variables would be valuable when working with message automation.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

zIIP usage of CICS transactions should be in the CICS component of TDS

For accounting reasons we need to know, how much time was used on a CP and on a special processor (zIIP) per CICS transaction. Cics Performance monitor shows this numbers by using the SMF 110 records USRCPUT and CPUTONCP respectively OFFLCPUT. TDS...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Let Enterprise Cobol Compiler exploit zIIP CPU

Starting from version 5, enterprise cobol compilers have increased the cpu used to compile programs, especially using optimization options of the executables.Offload the CPU used by compilers to zIIP processors at least during the most cpu busy ph...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Multiple MQ monitoring subsystems in an lpar

Currently if any maintenance hits the 3 lmods concerned with the subsystem interface AGMQSTBC/AGMQSTBX/AGMQSSIN we have to either stop all ZAPM activity across that entire image, AGMQ TERM for any MQ regions where monitoring is active, stop CICS r...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Provide a FUNCTION MAX-LENGTH for the maximum length of self-referencing ODO structures

If a linkage section structure contains one or more ODO items resident in the structure itself, Enterprise COBOL provides no means of determining the maximum length of such a structure for allocation purposes, short of a numeric literal copied fro...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Future consideration

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