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Debugging in IMS with Debug Tool

1) It is common to have IMS transactions switching to others, so, we should have how to specify different transaction codes (I suggest 15), to better filtering. Filtering by CU names must be maintained, as long as the multiple tx. id filter. 2) Sp...
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Enhance INVOKINGPROG to provide program name even in a 3-region hop

Please enhance INVOKINGPROG to return program name even in the circumstances where there are multiple CICS regions and DPLs involved. In the documentation, the function is described as follows:""If you issue the ASSIGN INVOKINGPROG command in a re...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

consumption-based chargeback

this requirement is about adding consumption based chargeback for zVM&KVM.chargeback is supposed a key feature to IaaS provider use case.Potential customers: Sogei, Citi; UHG; SSA, BCBS, Sicoob, etc.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

Add ability to track externally files migrated as binary and formatting lost in IDZ

Related to RFE 143077.Seeing that once it's migrated over as binary, all formatting will be lost in IDz and it'll be next to impossible to fix the code afterwards." This issue is editing and round trip with binary files as created/indicated throug...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Code Coverage Report and expanded source need to be consistent with encoding for other modules ( as SonarQube supports only o

Code Coverage Report and expanded source need to be consistent with all other modules as SonarQube supports only one encoding at time e.
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Delivered

Modify HACPEE interaction with 3rd party PDF Generator

In HACPEE v2.1, it permits interacting with 3rd party SW tools to generate PDF files in the following way:-HACPEE is able to identify the LU3 printer name that has been passed through URL.-Whenever a given LU3 receives data, HACPEE generate the SP...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Delivered

Allow to cancel a session of a e3270 user

Currently, if a e3270 user hangs there is no way to remove it from the panel of connected users. In addition, if the same user connects again, its userId appears twice in the list of connected users. There is no way to get rid of the instance corr...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

OMEGAMON for CICS V5.5 is not displaying NATURAL ADABAS sub-rotines in historical data

SERPRO wants to monitor when ADABAS commands were processed by CICS transactions.When a transaction execute a NATURAL rotine and calls another sub-rotine, both accessing ADABAS, OMEGAMON for CICS V5.5 shows the correct number of ADABAS commands, B...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Reporting 2 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Categorization of Resource Detail information

Categorization of Resource Detail information (as in the WUI)
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Delivered

FA plugin must automatically add default hsitory files to a system

When a user adds a system entry to the Fault Analyser Objects View he needs to add the default history file dataset manually.This is a problem for users who do not know the default history files on all the systems. FA Plugin should provide a metho...
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered