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Peformance Analyzer - Explorer Performance Summary Charts

I'm in the process of proposing a Request for Enhancement. within the PA plug-in of the explorer that provides user the functionality to gain a summarized view of transactions (so each line point, or bar (if bar graph) would be for all the transac...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

System event enhancement: monitor CONNECTION status, similar as DB2CONN.

We want a system event enhancement to monitor CONNECTION status, similar as DB2CONN. Currently there are only 6 types of system events, not including CONN monitoring.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Add the possibility to force acceptance of sidefile even if mismatch

In the 3270 interactive reanalysis, the user can force Fault Analyzer to accept a side file even if the verification fails. The user "accepts" that a mismatch may happen.It is not possible from the RDz plug-in. It is important that this feature is...
almost 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

new CPU usage metric from the z/OS insde pont of view

At the moment we get only the avg. CPU from the z/OS system or from any address spaces inside of the LPAR related to the hardware and / or the RMF CPU interval values. What we need is a metric for the normalizedCPU usage from the LPAR it self, lik...
almost 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Delivered

"optimize build order" as an ANT-task

If one EGL-project depends on (references parts in) another project, you need to build the dependent project after the other project. In the workbench this can be achieved using the "optimize build order" menu option.When creating a workspace dyna...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Provide option to disable -q'info' warnings for system headers.

XL C/C++ will issue many warnings about poor coding constructs in the xlc and AIX system header files. This makes it difficult to find warnings about our custom code and prevents usage of -qhalton for errors we deem important. Obviously, it would ...
almost 12 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

enable paralled debug in IBM COBOL for AIX and TXseries

We are using COBOL for AIX 4.1.0.3 and TXSeries 7.1.0.3 s710-L110906When two developers or more are going through a program compiled for debug, all developers are stopped on the program.
almost 12 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 5 Delivered

Use of trigraphs in C++ Standard Library headers prevents disabling their use in custom code.

xlC -q'notrigraph' impossible to use in any program using C/C++ Standard Library headers. The IBM XL C/C++ headers use trigraphs. This is an archaic feature that we want to not allow in our source code. Unfortunately, use of -q'notrigraph' is not ...
almost 12 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer improvements

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almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

Run "Create Template from Model" in batch

Run "Create Template from Model" in batch -- Is there was a way to run the FM 7.1 CM Create template from model option in batch? We have a shared template library that I would like to convert from a VB 27994 to FB 80 . I copy them over one by one,...
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered