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CICS Web Services should support Unicode (UTF-16)

When using CICS web services, the default translation code page is UTF-8 from localccsid. This customer has user data in a DB2 sub-system stored in UTF-16. To process this data using CICS web services, they must read the DB2 tables and translate f...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Support Null configuration as a supported feature for Region Switch

For clients managing multiple GDPS sessions within a single Kg/Kr system pair, provide the ability to load a null config (via XML) for region switch purposes. This capability does exist but according to IBM is not supported. This would allow custo...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

Threadsafe for CICS shared data tables

We are unable to fully exploit threadsafe caoability within our CICS applications due to their utilization of shared data tables. We would like to see data tables be compatibile with threadsafe.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Get the CPU% info in Report Class / Service Class Metrics in ITM Warehouse - as same as the EPILOG RSCL report

In the ITM with OM-XE for z/OS , we could not get the Report Class , Service Class cpu% in historical collector. Checked the WPA relative metrics , we could not find the CPU usage % value to evaluate the performance of each customized Report/Servi...
9 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

SYSTEM Policy action to influence WLMHEALTH

System Policy action to influence WLMHEALTH
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Compare two files from Remote Edit History view

When working with files in IDz it is often cumbersome to find and selecting different members in the Remote Systems view if the members are in different libraries. Users would like to have the option of comparing two files/members from the Remote ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 5 Delivered

Selection Criteria for Transaction Resource record

When I try to fix the AFCY abend (deadlock abend)，I have to figure out which file was locked when the deadlock happened and which task locked the file.Usually the task's response time must be long.It's a critical value that I can use to filter the...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Dependency Resolver must be able to detect CICS submodules

Various forms of called CICS modules all have in common that the text DFHCOMMAREA appears somewhere in the program source, without any EXEC CICS present. It usually is in the LINKAGE SECTION, the PROCEDURE DIVISION USIING clause and/or in a CALL s...
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

Support for Cobol Decimal fields 9(x).9(y)

We require support for the mapping of real decimal fields in Cobol -- in the form of PIC 9(x).9(y)..
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

CICS JVMSERVER logs administration

CICS JVMSERVER support generates unix filesystem logs. CICS does not supply anything to administer these logs, which can potentially be big. The infocenter does not supply much help regarding best practices related to logs handling or the content ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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