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Lack of options in START CHANNEL

Under CICS TS 5.4 - and up to 5.6 there is no support for the PROTECT / NOCHECK options with START commands issued with CHANNELs. This imposes a significant limitation where CHANNEL's are in effect the strategic comms pattern for CICS program inte...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Start/stop debug region in multiple LPARs from one single LPAR

For debug isolation Start/stop two different private IMS regions in parallell IMS system from one LPAR Today we need to start both regions manually from each LPAR with different job names. We want to be able to do this from one LPAR by selecting t...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Cobol V6R2 - Conflict between INITCHECK and OPTIMIZE(0)

The new Cobol V6R2 INITCHECK compile option is conflicting with OPTIMIZE(0) compile option : IGYOS4021-W The "INITCHECK" option was discarded due to option conflict resolution. The "OPTIMIZE(0)" option took precedence. Even if internally there can...
almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Enable generate action for minor/simple maintanance on MCM

I would like to have a simple generate action in MCM to activate PTF's in the running environment of OMEGAMON without going through the whole procedure of MCM or PARMGEN.
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide CICS Stats to show peak Threads used for JVM

The RDO definition for a JVM includes the maximum number of threads. CICS Explorer and DFHSTUP always show all Threads in use. I'd like to see the actual number of threads used so we know if the number defined is appropriate. DFHSTUP output JVMSER...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Enhance z/OS Connect to fall back to basic authentication if certificate is for an unauthorized user

Currently it appears that if a program running in CICS does not specify to send a client certificate, CICS is then sending it's certificate to z/OS Connect. In our case this ID does not have invoke access to the API so the attempt fails at that po...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Tablename COLLECTION should be changed

The table COLLECTION in the DBB ddl is named after the z/OS DB2 reseved word COLLECTION. The table should be renamed (e.g. DBBCOLECTION) so that customers don't have to do changes to the ddl before its execution.
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Delivered

Add storage statistics field for available 64-bit extents LWM

A new statistics field should be created that will be similar to this calculation outlined in the CICS v5.5 Knowledge Center (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.5.0/reference/statistics/dfht3_stats_stgmgr_0stat_above2GB.html)-...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow enable/disable of transactions starting with C

Allow CEMT and SPI functions to enable or disable user transactions starting with "C".
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide Executing Program Information in jls

I would like to see the currently executing program as a capability in jls. This would allow automation and scripts to detect any jobs running particular programs (by name) and add another data column to intelligently filter data by. For example, ...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Delivered

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