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Improve IMS catalog retention criteria / IMS catalog record purge utility

Currently there is no way to clean up the IMS catalog with the IMS catalog record purge utility without having a risk to loose an active catalog instance, because you can only specify IMS catalog retention criteria in the IMS PROCLIB DFSDFxxx memb...
about 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Delivered

When using "CA7 job trigger flow", trigger path is missing

TD Bank evaluated ADDI v5.1.0.3 - When customer is using the option "CA7 job trigger flow", they found that for some jobs it doesn't show a trigger path (No Schedule ID available to be selected)

Avoir tous les formats des rubriques

Avoir dans les vues o? le format des rubriques apparait avoir tous les formats
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

CICS TCPIPSERVICE - RETRY needed

When doing an IPL, sometimes CICS is started before TCP/IP is fully up and running. This results in TCPIPSERVICEs being unable to start.--- This RFE is to add two parameters to the TCPIPSERVICE definition:1. RETRY_COUNT to specify how many times C...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

GUID/UUID as bulitin function

A function to generate a GUID in CICS/Batch. Right now we use our own function to achieve this.
almost 12 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

Notification during build in case of error happens

TD Bank decided to use ADDI 5.1.0.4 and during the build process, sometimes errors pops up and the ADDI window must be closed to continue the build.Is it possible to the following:1 - Improve the tool so the ADDI users don't need to close the wind...

CTS 5.4 EXCI need BROWSE Container function

cics V5.4 delivers long anticipated channel and containers over EXCI. While this is new ground for batch applications, we have existing cics applications which deliver a set of containers to ECI c# and Java client code, via cics transaction gatewa...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

We have a requirement to retain the installation data on a VERIFYX call

A recent change at RSU1412 level has resulted in failure of passwordless calls to ICHRIX01. An exit we use - ICHRIx01 requires that the INSTLN - Installation Data - is passed to it. Removal of the INSTLN from the VERIFYX call within CICS means tha...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Generic attributes

Generic attributes are not supported in RDz PL/I Editor.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Add keyword to BACKUP DSN command to select all eligible files in a user catalog

ACM should support the ability to select all VSAM files in a designated User Catalog for backup processing. This can then be combined with an Exclude statement to filter out anomolies. This can be very useful when clients need to capture backups f...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Delivered