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Code Review on zOS works but produces java exceptions and FrameworkEvent ERROR

Running Code Review AKGCR on zOS produces the following java exception as well as several Framework Event errors:!MESSAGE FrameworkEvent ERRORandJVMJZTK2999W jzos.jar build version '2.4.4 2012-07-27' does not match libjzos DLL build version '2.4.8...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Code Coverage 1 Delivered

CICS should never loop endlessly when gathering statistics and writing them out to SMF

Sometimes, CICS statistics collection goes awry and loops endlessly. When this happens, CICS writes statistics to SMF for the same group of resources over and over in a never-ending loop. This causes CICS to become unusable and to have to be cance...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Set lower limit for TRTABSZ SIT parm

The CICS Internal Trace Table TRTABSZ parameter has defaulted to 12M since version 5.3. Before that it was 4M in CICS 5.2. Yet we still have customers coming in with extremely small trace table sizes (64K, 128K, 256K, etc.) that would on the surfa...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Display DFHCSD being accessed by CEDA/B/C

We have a client that has many CICS CSDs. We are in the process of consolidating them, but it is a long process. It is convenient to have a "CSDOR" (CSD-Owning-Region) to allow a single point where CEDA/B/C can be used to manage any CSD and to tha...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Enhancement of the MULTUSER Function

Since some of our users have work with two separated CLSS-Sessions (having only one user-id) we'd like to have the MULTUSER funcion enhanced:- when an active user logs on at another terminal, he should have the possibility to control, whether the ...
about 7 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Ability to call unwrapped SOAP service

Document Literal unwrapped services are not supported by the EGL Client Interface wizard in RBD. See attached files for an example of a Document Literal unwrapped service.
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Delivered

enable use of the IBM API Connect for outbound apis.

When defining outbound api configurations in zOS Connect as apiRequestors it is sometimes necessary to configure custom http-headers to be applied to the outbound api call. For example the "x-ibm-client-id" when targeting an api on IBM API Connect...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Enhance description on the number of occurrences

** Context **My customer consolidated ZWS controller from 20 to 1 for improving operability. With the consolidation, the number of occurrences in one CP became 20 times larger, specifically from 30,000 occurrences per CP to 600,000 occurrences in ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered

Module names missing in FA eclipse GUI

In the old FA ISPF user interface “6. Storage Areas” the storage areas are listed as “Event nn Program xxxxxxx Data” and you can very easy investigate storage areas for a specific module. In the FA eclipse GUI “Event details” are they listed as “E...
about 5 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Develop CICS Certification

Please develop a CICS Certification program. I found that Senior level Management feels that Certification shows that the holder has a detailed understanding of the product. It also shows that the holder is comitted to continuing their CICS educat...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered