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Additional System Policy triggers on Tranclass

Similar to the existing capability of defining system policy rules that trigger on the number of current user tasks in a Tran class, provide the ability to trigger system policy rules on the number of queued tasks in tran classes that have a purge...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CANZLOG Archive file management

CANZLOG archive management improvements for archive files.    There needs to be a means to correlate updates to index and CZTOPAGE with automatic deletion of archive files.  ...Ideally, provide a 'CZTOARCH' or equivalent that specif...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Delivered

AD usage

Application Discovery should have a capability to track the usage of the AD product. It should be possible to:* measure number of connects to the AD services (to be able to measure # users)- what functions used in AD (graphs,reports,usage)- # inte...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Delivered

Issue message when DB2 Cancel Thread done,

Issue Message when DB2 CANCEL Thread issued when Task Purged. along the lines of DFHAP1900 when a SET TASK, with an indication that a DB2 CANCEL was also done.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Service Project Editor Enhancement

When there is a change to the mainframe CICS program’s commarea structure, the only way to get the changes in, is to Import the entire changed structure and do all the Interface mappings all over again! This potentially causes issues if we are not...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Choice of colors for fonts of characters in the emulator TSO

In the development teams of people have vision problems. Some colors are avoided.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Delivered

Limit 110 Subtype 2 to active resources only

Reduce the number of CICS SMF 110 subtype 2 records generated by eliminating those records with 0 use counts. This might require two types of stats intervals - one being a delta interval and another being a full interval. The full interval would b...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS message for TCP/IP connection failure during startup

After an IPL, TCP/IP and CICS are started. A CICS region fails to connect TCP/IP during this startup since TCP/IP is not completely initialized. This issues message DFHSO1001 with code 0CA8 (NMI INQUIRE failed) as well as a CICS dump. From Knowled...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Expand Column Width of table entries

Some views like the "Remote Monitor" View e.g. for "my jobs" consist of table columns. When a developer changes the column width and then closes and reopens the view, the column widths earlier are no longer used. The column width goes to a default...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 7 Delivered

Message IGYPG3192-E should be issued when Reference Modification with Inline Calculation is performed

When performing a MOVE operation with Reference Modification that uses Inline Calculation, if possible the compiler should detect if it will go beyond the rightmost character of the target variable and if so error message IGYPG3192-E should be iss...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

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