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APA support to summarize observation data over multiple addresspaces

Most customers do observations for multiple regions at once (since they do not know in what region applications will be schedules. To be able to diagnose problems, they need the observation values for the full application / middle ware regions. Th...
about 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Addition of an "USS Command" record and enhancements to the DBB BuildReport table

USS Command record : This new record would be used to store information about the execution of a USS command. It would be reported in the DBB BuildReport for subsequent processing (like packaging or UCD component version creation). This record wou...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

SMU : Avoid error messages when nothing to display

Hello When trying to display exceptional messages and wtor , error messages EEZU012E and EEZU0301E are displayed when there is no messages from the INGMSGS output and no pending WTOR. A normal message shoudl be displayed instead on an ERROR message.
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 2 Delivered

Ability to set the current timestamp into a request z/OS Connect sends to a backend system

A lot of input messages for transactions contain a timestamp telling the transaction program when an input message has been sent by a distributed application or by a host system of a business partner. For instance application-based transaction exp...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Requesting RDz v9.x to support Enterprise COBOL v5.1

Our application developers use Rational Developer for System z ("RDz") to generate Web Service programs for CICS. We are implementing the Enterprise COBOL v5.1 compiler in order to exploit the new and faster machine instructions on the zEnterprise...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 6 Delivered

Clean up of OTMA orphaned YTIBS

A transaction started via a message switch under OTMA which replies to the IOPCB may still leave orphaned YTIB storage in IMS. This effectively causes a storage creep and requires an IMS recycle to fix.This request is that IMS should periodically ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Key Mapping augmentation

Please consider allowing for mapping of PF13 - PF24 in the RCE. Today, only PF1-PF12 are able to be mapped.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Delivered

ZUnit - Result of testcase not correct

In case Zunit test is setup with in the expected result more records described the the program effectively returns the test fails and you receive a message ! However in case Zunit test is setup with in the expected result less records are describe...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Delivered

System Policy for MQ connection status

System policy rule to detect when an MQ connection is not enabled.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Allow JSON PARSE to process anonymous table objects

Allow the ability to parse a JSON string that contains an anonymous table object.Currently unless the table object is named parsing fails.Could expand the NAME OMITTED Clause to allow this.
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered