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Managed HOD Auto-Launch after Install

Skill Case # TS005393611 Customer has a need to make the Managed HOD application NOT to auto-launch after install.This is because Customer has more people who do NOT use the mainframe than they have users who do use the mainframe, so this applicat...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer not able to export information to a file

Display of the system parameter (SIT values) dosn't offer the possibility to export the content in a file to be later on managed.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Reverse Order Button

When multiple programs thru a batch job or thru a workspace scan the ordering of the results is always the rule and then the underlying programs with their line numbers. It makes more sense if the program is the header and then the metrics or rule...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

A "Replace All" action should be reverible with a single UNDO command

The Replace All actions treats each of its edits separately, so UNDO (Ctrl+Z) and REDO (Ctrl+Y) serially backs off or reapplies each edit. When the number of edits exceeds the size of the UNDO buffer, it becomes impossible to reverse a Replace All...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Configuration file for shared definitions

We would like to have the capability to specify a configuration file for all shared parameters (timeout, statistics..) between CTGs and another one for specific parameters (applid,port..)
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve Sysplex Distributer / DVIPA routing for CICSplex

Today, a TCP/IP connection request comes to a specific DVIPA definition in TCP/IP and is essentially routed “round robin” across eligible LPARs and CICS regions. We want CPSM to influence which CICS region / LPAR is assigned to new DVIPA connectio...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICS PA Logger report enhancements.

We see CICSPA can read SMF-88 (Logger data). Redbook(Paper ) redp-3768 describes how SMF-88 and SMF-110 can be used together to tune the Logger files. While all these calculations can be manually done, we would like to know if CICSPA can be enhanc...
over 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

ADDi - support of different code page in the same library

If you have 2 differents codes page in the same dataset, you can't create a filter based on a patern on the file. Only on the dataset level. An option as we can specify the filter name of the file you want in the dataset can be good.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Using CICS DFHWBPW for normal password change

Our idea is to use CICS password change program DFHWBWB, which is normaly triggered when the passwort expires, also for the normal password change process.We tried it and it works in principle, when using any URL like http://serverurl/DFHWBPW. Wha...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DFHBRNSF data set counter

Customer feels CICS should automatically reset the counter and not require customers to take an outage of their region(s) because of message DFHBR0509 being issued, when the DFHBRNSF dataset counter is nearing its limit.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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