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z/TPF business event APIs to query status and info about active events and dispatch adapters

1. Provide zEV API returning the zEV Names of all Deployed and Active z/TPF zEVents 2. A customer written z/TPF program will call the API every "n" minutes to get a list of all deployed and active z/TPF Business Eventing Facility (zEV) Named Event...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Need way to manage TRANCLASS/PURGETHRESH processing

There should be a mechanism for managing the process of purging incoming transactions that are above the PURGETHRESH limit for a TRANCLASS that does not put the region at risk of being driven to MAXTASK. Either there should be a mechanism for thro...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

built-in function to return jobname, userid, etc

Provide a built-in function / subroutine (PLIZOS ?) returning system dependent information like JOBNAME, MAINPGMNAME, ? - in analogy with FILEDDWORD.
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 10 Delivered

IQIBUTIL JCL pre-processor function

DSC users could use the option to generate JCL for using IQIBUTIL functions via batch jobs.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Need some help from IMS to modify the command processor to scan actual existing destinations in IMS

IMS provided some support years ago to clear a flag which indicates output present ( and prevents TPIPE deletion ) when a DISPLAY TPIPE QCNT command is issued in IMS, and QCF was enhanced to issue the command.Unfortunately, this would never work, ...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Delivered

Allow Compare of two CodeCoverage Runs

With Debug Tool Code Coverage you can generate a readable report and a xml file which contains all the statements and the information, which statements were used in a session.Sometimes it is interesting, which differences exists in comparison to a...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

Make CPU Resource Limiting effective for EXEC JCICS calls

We have some development going on with JAVA under CICS. When a transaction goes into a loop, RLCP ignores it. We have learned (see Case TS013710405) that RLCP only monitors EXEC CICS calls and not EXEC JCICS calls. Also, it ignores any programs th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Add function to the Terminate command that would allow the specification of a session ID. Example "T sessid"

This function would provide additional capability for clients that write scripts that interface with CL/SuperSession
about 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

JES Filter Strings - combine variable &USERID with a constant

The filter string for JES is already support the variable &USERID . Unfortunately I can not combine this variable with a constant. Example: my user id is FRED. If I now want to filter all jobs with the job name FREDX this does not work. &am...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Enable Export of RSE filters also when Filter Pools are active.

The export function for filters in the Remote Systems Explorer should export ALL filters, no matter on which connection or in which filter pool they are.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered