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RPP should only consume license tokens when the product is used

RPP is consuming license tokens while it is not being used when RDz is started. The RPP implementation is based on workbench startup. While RDz v9 has been componentized to manage floating licenses based on feature usage (e.g., LPEX open) as oppos...
almost 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

Websockets in Liberty

Please include a version/release of Liberty in CICS that supports websockets.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

IMS database dependent segment layout mapping based on root segment value

To be able to access IMS database segment with different data structures using SQL you have to define mappings in your Catalog. The data structures of a segment typically depend on the segment length or a specific field value within this segment. ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 3 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE - provide a pass-through mapping option for HTTP headers

z/OS Connect EE - provide a pass-through mapping option for HTTP headers Provide for direct mapping of Request HTTP headers to Response HTTP headers, without any need for processing. In our environment, certain headers are used for global tagging ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Data Set Commander: Need FINDTEXT and MEMFIND in JCL

I have a PDSEv2 with 10,000 members plus concatenations of data sets with thousands of other members and want to scan everything without tying up my ISPF online session, plus and extract scanned results to a sequential dataset. FINDTEXT and MEMFIN...
over 7 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Implement EXEC CICS EXTRACT STATISTICS POLICY SPI command

There is a new statistic record for policy that can be written to SMF using PERFORM STATISTICS RECORD POLICY, however there is no way to extract the statistics online. EXTRACT STATISTICS POLICY should be added to the SPI to match other statistics ...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add "Exclude CSECT" to Load Module Compare

I would like to request the ability to exclude CSECTs by name to the Load Module compare.
almost 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

DFHAM4838 Duplicate Definition - display the Groups.

Display the Existing Definition Group and the duplicate New Definition Group; make cleanup easier, when definition in multiple groups; can visually see in message, DFHAM4838 E PAR1CICG 749 Install of DB2ENTRY KEDR failed because an existing defi...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

New fields on IZPCA tbls

Customer, AMEX (American Express) is in an urgent need that the following new fields on SMF DB2 fields, be added on IZDS/IZPCA DB2 tables: RDS_SORT |QXSTSRT |Number of times RDS Sort was performedRDS_SORTL |QXSTSRTL |Number of times RDS Sort used ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Delivered

API Requester configuration server.xml vs ara file

We need zero server.xml modifications when deploying, updating and moving an API requester between environments:- Fully automatic deployment and update from an ara file, like we've with APIs and services, without necessity to create a section in t...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered