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LE: Allow TERMTHDACT option that combines UAONLY with MSG behavior, *without* the CEEDUMP clutter

Please provide an option for TERMTHDACT which provides the CICS transaction dump that UAONLY provides, along with the CESE output that MSG provides, without the copious CEEDUMP output that DUMP provides. In other words, we ONLY want the CICS trans...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

LE to allow UNIX System Services to interrupt an LE program utilizing Pause/Release

LE to allow UNIX System Services to interrupt an LE program utilizing Pause/Release. System: LE on z/OS USS Actor: SAP support experts or any other USS C code developer with the necessity to debug the stack trace of a process SAP support experts w...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

Print LE conforming assembler Stack frame storage in CEEDUMP

First I am not sure why LE Stack frame storage is considered language dependent and requires the language to format and print for CEEDUMP. Maybe it is assumed that there will be symbolic data available to match the fields with labels. The LE entry...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Supporting all date and time formats of DB2

We use the DB2 date and time formats in our programs. Therefor it is necessary that the language environment - that is the software LE - supports all date and time formats that DB2 supports.Supports means (examples):- day-zero is accepted (00-00-0...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Create a new code page in order to support latest Spanish language changes; namely, using ll and ch as two different chars

We have found a weird behaviour using PL/I REGEX function. After opening a support case, IBM team become aware code page needs some updates. However, it may be easier to build a new one, picking those changes.
8 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

LE Callable Service for RegEx

RegEx is a basic service to validate that a string is a regular expression. It's been implemented in Java, C, C#, perl, and many others. It's used in ISPF. It even has a Wikipedia entry. It's not available in COBOL. Take the best implementation, e...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

LE should give an error for an attempt to start a new enclave in a single-enclave environment

An LE environment that is set up for a single enclave only will not support an attempt to start a second enclave. Currently, if this is attempted in COBOL, the result is a S0C1 in CEEBPIRA. An APAR is open that will change this to be a U4093-92 ab...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Create LE STORAGE and OPTIONS reports wh

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0313072237User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSLNGC07003Title: Create LE STORAGE and OPTIONS reports when program abendsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : APL...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

LE's Heap Latch should be FIFO, not LIFO

Serialization via LIFO has the negative effect of leaving the first task in to never obtain the resource when processing is very busy. FIFO allowed everyone the chance to get in and get out with little delays even during a busy time.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

LE to surface correct information when 31/64 bit code is incorretly used via DLL

* if 31/64 bit code in intermixed in a non supported manner (DLL)* message "EDC5206S DLL module name too long" is shown * The correct information (CEE3587S A call was made to a function in the AMODE 31 DLL //FU018J from an AMODE 64 caller)surfaces...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration