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Removal of the limitation of predecessor in the current plan

On complex network (our production system 'UPLEX1? run mother than 300000 operation/day)the limitation of predecessor to 1000 may cause some operation to be started too early and to fails.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered

Binary read - Reading MVS DS with x'00'

z Open Automation Utilities provide functions for processing data sets. One of these functions is datasets.read(). Unfortunately datasets.read() stops reading after a x'00' occurs in the input data set. This RFE seeks to eliminate this restriction.
almost 3 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Delivered

Angel support for more than one Liberty per CICS address space

Angel support for more than one Liberty per CICS address space.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

IMS release level incorrect in INQY ENVIRON data output in IMS 15.2

In IMS 15.2, the INQY ENVIRON call still returns the IMS release level 15.1 (x'0000151F'). Therefore, can you provide the correct IMS release level to the INQY ENVIRON call please.
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 3 Delivered

Request For Enhancement

Hi Developer,Modify the HSISUDEL job/program to add an option that would allow us to retain Usage Log records when HSISUDEL is run.
9 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Delivered

IMS DB access thru z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition (zCEE)

Provide direct IMS DB access thru z/OS Connect via REST/JSON APIs.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

mtmmGDPS Support for MTMM Dual leg + GM With LCP

For Barclays to take advantage of logical corruption protection we would need GDPS to support to include Global Mirror into a GDPS Metro Dual leg environment. Currently this is not a GDPS supported configuration. We would then use the Global Mirro...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 8 Delivered

Plex wide View of TSQs, TDQs, Connections, etc.

We have an occasional issue where a TSQ gets created but not deleted and locks everyone out of it.We would normally just lists all the TSQs in our current monitoring product, sort them by name and then delete it. If we have to look in every region...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Client 1 Delivered

CICS retry to connect TCPIP during startup automatically or as configured

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 results in those resources unable to start.CICS should be able to handle this by restarting the c...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Missing Replacement-String in COPY REPLACING should be flagged

When using:COPY Bookname REPLACING abcd BY wxyz and there is an typing error in operand-1 (here: "abcd") and so no replacement has been done, it should be an compiler message (informational) with a hint like "No Replacement done".It also should be...
almost 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered