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Threadsafe access for Shared Data Tables (GSE requirement GGCIC06006)

Access to Shared Data Tables generates lots of TCB switches with the according performance decrease
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Cobol 5 Sort Table in-place

Sort in Enterprise COBOL 5.2 does not sort in-place when sorting an array in storage, but instead allocates a work copy of the array to perform the sorting and allocates additional storage as well.This is inefficient and unsuitable when used with ...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

zUnit does not support DLL

Most of the programs are CA Gen generated cobol programs. We build them as DYNAM(DLL) option either statically or dynamically (Also we give a file of IMPORT CODE statement to the binder while linking the calling program to be able to do DLL Call)....
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

Graphs can be exported to files in editable formats.

Graphs can be output to files that are editable in vector graphics format.Microsoft Excel, Word, Visio formats are one of most desirable ones.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Delivered

Produce in any case a systemdump for U0999 abends without the need for the user to add the code into the SRT

In some cases CICS terminates with an U0999 abend and does not automatically producea system dump. It is very important to get a systemdump every time with the standard DFHSRT1$. By default this user abend should be part of the standard SRT SRT1$ ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Crytographic Protocols setting granularity in CTS

With CTS 5.1 the Encryption options in the SIT allow settings such as All, Strong, Medium etc. These in turn relate to security protocols, e.g. SSLV3 (now no longer secure !), TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 etc. We would prefer to have the ability to define spe...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Access TACB Fields

There are fields in the TACB that are very useful for debugging, specifically, after a DPL link, ABNDAMSG is set to an error message from the AOR region.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 10 Delivered

FileUpload dialog

EGL is designed for people not knowing HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, JSF etc. We would like to have a dialog to upload files to the server and receive them as a blob. The only (non-working) examples on the EGL-web are in JSP, JSF etc. Abacadabra to...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Enhance JES Spool Refresh

Allow the refresh option (PF5) to work when a Job Name:Job Number is highlighted in the JES Area.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Enable view persistence in OMEGAMON For Storage

The DADS should be a persistent structure that remains intact after a recycle of the TEMS. As views become more complex and require more resources to generate they should also have the ability to be persistent from session to session. In much the ...
about 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

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