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TXSeries for Linux code page support

Related to: Case #002565956Environment: TXSeries for Linuxlocale: ja_JP.sjis In case of using vendor extension characters in program source code and BMS map source, cicstcl/cicstran and cicsmap command failed.We know TXSeries uses iconv for code c...
over 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Transaction Rate Monitoring for TXSeries

We use IBM Tivoli Monitoring to monitor our TX regions. Currently, the run count of transactions is provided, which represents the total number of transactions executed. The transaction rate, which refers to the number of transactions completed pe...
7 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Improve synchronization level 2 on IPIC

Currently synchronization level 2 on IPIC connection like CICS TS is not supported in TXSeries, should use SNA connection for CICS TS where synchronization level 2 is needed for data integrity of distribute transactions.This limit is what stops us...
9 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

override the userid and password in the XA_OPEN string of a TXSeries region

TXSeries region does connect to the database using the user specified in the XAD.stanza when the cicsas comes up that same user will be used by application programs throughout that process for all DB related queries. For security requirement need ...
9 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

TXSeries use of PAM module needs rveiew

So the issue is that basically WebSphere Liberty is running as user cics AND thru the Web interface, in the back-end, the TXServies Web still tries to execute su - cics as demonstrated below in the screenshot, IT is NOT necessary to su to 'cics' a...
almost 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
about 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Web Service support for WS-Atomic Transaction

Support is required for Web Service Atomic Transaction, see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.zseries.doc/info/zseries/ae/cjta_wstran.html
about 18 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

request to support packaging the fda7.jar at the EAR level

When moving the fda7.jar at the EAR level, EGL Web service fails with error Caused by: java.rmi.RemoteException: EGL1603E An error occurred while loading the com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService service. Error: com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService_I...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

Improve the collection of IPIC and CICS traces

We can only enable IPIC and CICS traces by setting IPIC_DATA_TRACE=1 and CICSTRACE = 1 environment variables and restarting TX regions afterwards. This usage is not practical in case of an issue that we cannot reproduce as we don't know the cause ...
almost 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration