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bsearch library function for Metal C

Given the Metal C run-time library includes qsort, it should include bsearch
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Future consideration

Remove restriction on MVS files being closed when a thread ends

Knowledge Center documents the restriction that "All MVS files opened from a given thread and still open when the thread is terminated are closed automatically by the library during thread termination." (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Enable AUTOCVT to assume untagged files are ibm-1047

I have been porting several open source applications to USS using the -qascii option on the C/C++ compilers. This works wonderfully when auto conversion is also enabled. The one whole in the auto conversion feature is that it doesn't assume untagg...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

LE storage report STACK64 option new feature

The Maximum used by all concurrent threads is to count active thread number which is counted after thread initialization before thread termination and could handle the workload. We need one thread number statistics value align with the stack lifet...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Provide option for open() and fopen() to set the CCSID of a newly created file

Support a new environment variable that would make LE's runtime open() and fopen() functionsset the attribute of a newly created file to a given CCSID. This environment variable could be named something like _EDC_NEW_FILE_CCSID. If set, for exampl...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Allow HEAPZONES LE RTO to be set in CEEBXITA Assembler Exits

As documented in the z/OS Language Environment Programming Guide: You cannot set HEAPZONES at the system level, region level, or in the CEEBXITA assembler user exit interface. This RFE documents the need to allow HEAPZONES to be specified in CEEBX...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Have z/OS C support -qascii options properly

Trying to use the -qascii compile option, facilities like printf print in ASCII on my TSO OMVS terminal - do not display the text properly - they display the stuff in ASCII. I have to do additional work to get this to work - Or issue the command p...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

CPU accounting information reported as 0 in IIB, due to limitation in clock() function.

We run IBM Integration Bus on z/OS and use the accounting feature of the product. We use it for distributing the costs internally based on the usage for different message flows.The message flow that consumes the most CPU is reported as 0 CPU consu...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

The clock() function that determines process time on z/OS needs to be increased or reset to zero after it reaches max value

We have a PMR 29022,082,000 opened with IBM Integration Bus V10 support about SMF CPU time not reporting correctly for some message flows. L3 found that the clock () function they were using to calculate processor time hit max value so they could ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

Option to report silent exception handling in LE

During some performance analysis we discovered in CICS trace a huge amount of S0CA - decimal overflow - interrupts caught and recovered by Language Environment. These were caused by a simple ADD statement in a cobol program which runs in an ILC en...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration