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Ask for OPEN I-O statement set the open input flag in SMF 62

We need to make statistics on how files are used on our system. For that we use SMF record 62. But when the file is open in I-O in a Cobol Program, COBOL open the File In OUTPUT only, so the flag Input Processing in field SMF62MC1 remains to NO.We...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Cobol V5 sequence detection

Detect the following sequence at compilation with a warning : 'move num-4b (binary format) to num-4p (packed format)' that can give truncation at execution
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Only for testing purposes - do _not_reply! Thanks.

This RFE is only for testing purposes (notification doesn't work correctly). Do not replay on this RFE. Thanks.
almost 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

PFI0510-1340 CTG CICS and IMS health status in sysplex distributor

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: scherwajSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0510-1340 CTG CICS and IMS health status in sysplex distributorHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent St...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Future consideration

refreshing CICS TG web services in a Gateway

We may be using CTG in a high availability application shortly. It appears that, at present, to refresh CICS TG web services, the Gateway daemon needs to be restarted to pick up any changes. A refresh command should be added to remove the need to ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Information about CPU consumption in CTG per request inclusion in CH51 trace

We find a lack of information in the CPU consumption per request in CTG. We use CICS PA and there is no way of getting this information in any report. We have shown a similar interest in Req Id 21847.But our requirement is:We would like to know th...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Seamless 64-bit Linux support for COBOL Importer

On Red Hat Linux 6.0 64-bit or newer, the COBOL importer code in IBM Integration Bus Toolkit does not work. Additional configuration is required to install RedHat libraries. Discussion with the Enterprise COBOL team reveals that this is a limitati...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Configurable dynamic server selection for Client Application

Configurable dynamic server selection (round robin, fail-over, back-end of scalability) for Client applications using the ECI V1 API, including the ability to dynamically modify the routing policy.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CTG bidirectional support

This requirement is raised on behalf of ICBC. They raised this requirement in 2014 CICS China group meeting. They want to try CTG as gateway. It is not only request from client via CTG into CICS TS, it is also request from CICS TS via CTG to other...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CTG Outbound requests

Product CICS TG z/OSWe use CTG to manage INBOUND ECI Calls coming from program running on OPEN Application Servers (Tomcat) towards CICS TS z/OS.We would like that CTG z/OS could manage also OUTBOUND Calls from CICS TS z/OS towards OPEN Applicatio...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration