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    Enhance CBAC CBKCLINK program with CICSPLEX support

    A time-critical job, currently reliant on an in-house program using EXEC CPSM PERFORM for file operations, cannot be migrated to CBAC CBKCLINK due to lacks of CICSPLEX support. When a PLEX LPAR restarts after maintenance, the current setup does no...
    24 days ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 1 Under review

    Enhance getmain/freemain of CBKCLINK program to avoid RLED abend

    Request IBM to review and enhance the CBKCLINK program to ensure proper handling of GETMAIN and FREEMAIN operations. Currently, the program does not release memory properly with FREEMAIN when called multiple times, leading to excessive memory allo...
    24 days ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 1 Under review

    Use of generic character in SET TRANSID for CBAC

    We are planning the migration from CA DADS to CICS Batch Application Control and faced the need to convert CICS commands like “CEMT SET TRANSID(XX*),ENABLESTATUS(DISABLED)" allowed in DADS,too, as CBAC command using “SET TRANSID”, that is the only...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Other 2 Not under consideration

    Possibility to install IDz v17 in z/OSMF mode

    So far only IDz EE has a ServerPac package in ShopZ to be installed with z/OSMF, so customer needs to request IDz EE licences as a workaround
    6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Future consideration

    Promotion of Remote Syntax Check

    We need a visibility enhancement for the Remote syntax check function in order for the developpers to see it fastly and use it more than what they are currently do.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 5 Future consideration

    HOLDDATA for ADF products - Support FIXCAT and ERRSYSMODS reports

    Add and update Enhanced HOLDDATA (http://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html) for all ADF FMIDs.Currently, each product must be checked individually: * Explorer for z/OS - http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27047906#311...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 2 Future consideration

    Interface CBAC with CEDA

    Just like you have interfaced CBAC with CEMT using RUNCEMT, we are asking to do the same for CEDA with a RUNCEDA facility. Our intention is to use CBAC to install CSD resources on a CBAC group level. As an example we hope to perform these CEDA com...
    over 1 year ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Other 2 Not under consideration

    special non-IBM Enterprise COBOL statement

    Compile of program was successful but using RDZ it got parsing errors
    about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

    Allow cBAC to store a start request in the cBAC control file when CICS is down so that the start command can then execute when the CICS region comes up

    We are currently considering converting from DADS to cBAC and are testing cBAC in a CICS test region. We did find a function that DADS can do but cBAC cannot do. We have many applications that do a start tran in DADS so that the start command is e...
    over 2 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    RFE of formatting support for multi-byte COBOL editor

    When I use Developer for System z, the following limitation is written. Windows>Preferences>COBOL>Editor>Formatter Indentation Tab : "Note : Indentation formatting is supported for single bytes character set source encoding only" I'd l...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

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