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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...
    25 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...
    26 days ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Future consideration

    See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

    Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86 The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu) Programs that we need to be ported to x86 The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, t...
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

    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

    Release TPF Debugger from IBM TPF Toolkit as Java Library

    Take the IBM TPF Debugger facilities that exist in IBM TPF Toolkit 4.6 and make available to customers as a stand-alone Java library (NOT as an Eclipse plug-in). n other words, provide the Java library that is responsible for the functionality to ...
    about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 5 Not under 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

    New Reference Stop option in the TK Debugger

    Request support for a new "Reference stop" breakpoint type. This would stop when a given EVA memory location is accessed by the traced ECB (read OR updated). Support would at minimum allow the user to specify a memory address for a given number of...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 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

    Ability to alter DSNAME or attributes of file within CBAC regardless of the type of CICS startup(COLD/WARM/EMER).

    The ability to alter the DSNAME or attributes to be effective after a COLD start within CICS Batch Application Control is needed.
    about 6 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Switch between slot in SW00SR view don't work

    In Toolkit 4.6, in debug, the SW00SR view is not updated when switching from one slot (TPFDF database) to another. Example in attach file : when we click on the second slot (25000B00), the details (and also Core Blocks, ...) are note updated with ...
    over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Is a defect

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