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Create a specific file for parser error in Software Analyzer

Currently in Software Analyzer, when you analyze an entire workspace made of several programs, all the cobol parser errors are retrieved in the .log in the workspace without any possibility to oriented those result in a specific file.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Enhance AD to be able to parse and perform source analysis on Systematics Core Banking proprietary application

The Systematics Core Banking Solution offers end-to-end solutions for architecture, customer information (Relationship Manager), deposits (IMPACS & Savings Time), lending (Advanced Lending Solution Servicing Manager), and financial and managem...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

new suppress prefix

The compiler has a lot of useful informations and warnings.Some of this couldn't be eliminated at time - therefore the message list get longer and longer - the risk to overlook a new message increase.As developer I want to accept a message for a s...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Add the socket descriptor as a parameter for the HWSAUTH0 exit

Users of our HWSAUTH0 exit routine need a socket-connection-based user authentication to conform to their company rules. To make it possible with HWSAUTH0 exit, we need in the HWSAUTH0 exit parameter list a new parameter where the socket descripto...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager 1 Not under consideration

Improve ability to define structures with power-of-2 size

When writing assembler code, it is often desirable or even necessary to define a structure with a length that is an integral power of 2. Reasons for such might be to avoid crossing a cache-line boundary; to be able to allocate an array of structur...
about 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

AD to provide support for REXX

Provide support for REXX at the same level as COBOL and Pl/I.
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Large Documents are printed with missing information

We noticed some documents are arriving incomplete to Docpath. These documents have many pages, and each time we try to print them, we are having randomly several pages (never the full document). After checking, we realized that the files .spl requ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

View print job button is not working as expected

The view print job button appears disabled when trying to click it (see image attatched)
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Define a new HATS variable which will contain the highlighted text

Opening a file in an Editor, we would want to get the value of the highlighted text. For example, in the JCL editor, highlight one data set name, then with a right click this would pull in that data set name to an action.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Getting Error [1043] : syntax Error for schid which are used in JCL's

Hi Team, When we try to build JCL which are having Schid's ( #JI, #JEND ) , we are getting Error[1043]. it seems ADDI compiler not recognizing #JI, #JEND in the JCL's and throwing the errors while building. It would be great help if the new versio...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration