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Make CICS Explorer "Managed Windows" View Scope Behaviour consistent with Regions View

CICS Explorer view Managed Regions shows the CPSM status of defined CICS regions in the CICS Plex with details such as whether connected, CPSM level and which CMAS they are connected to. The context of this view does not always change when selecti...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Activating new versions of java applications without any outage in a CICS with different OSI bundles and dependencies

The motivation is equal to the RFE 107228. We are looking for a solution to handle the LifeCycle of Java applications in an CICS Environment with different OSGI Bundles and dependencies between these bundles. Goal is an activation of new Versions ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic update capability to WLMSPEC

Currently any change to a WLMSPEC requires that all AORS and TORS in the workload be brought down at the same time, and that is an issue when we are trying to maintain 24x7 availability.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

The explorer tool to display resource attribute as per defination.

The explorer tool should display resource attribute as per defination for consistency. e.g. avoid -1 to represent NO and so on.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

advanced metadata objects with the JDBC driver outside of IMS Explorer

Currently there only exists a way to export an artifact to supply the DLIDatabaseViews to the IMS Universal JDBC driver as the non-Catalog metadata source. The DLIDatabaseView does not support advanced metadataobjects like Segment Map Cases or Use...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

zPDT Licence Manager Installation

We are using zDNT environment for the testing & training purposes. We have token server, License Manager(LM) & zDNT instances & all are on AWS cloud VM. We have faced issue with LM connectivity. As per the IBM guidelines we have instal...
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under consideration

A dynamic PRELOAD in dependant IMS region

Hi, For a Message Processing Region or Fast Path Region, it is possible to enable PRELOAD with a list of modules specified in a DFSMPLxx member of the IMS PROCLIB. To maintain a such static list in DFSMPLxx member is quit a heavy task. If it will ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Not under consideration

Transaction and Timestamp for COBOL DISPLAYS in IMS TM

Add IMS transaction code and timestamp (date and time) to output generated by COBOL DISPLAYs, similar to the CICS environment. When a COBOL DISPLAY is invoked in the CICS environment, the data passed to the DISPLAY command is prefxed on output to ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Not under consideration

BUILD CLIENT SHOULD RUN AS AN "OLD SCHOOL OMVS/ISPF" application "WHEN" build parser is rewritten to JAVA

Parser utilizes ZIIP for JAVA parsing, the source code can remain on zOS, BUILD CLIENT does not need graphics....this is a lot simpler than running build on another platform.
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

zLDA user log from JES Spool does not work when batch jobs are offloaded from JES to an archival product like "SAR".

Large MF (Enterprise) shops like CITI immediately offload batch for archival -- without this support the "user logs" from Spool to Splunk is not working for us. Our developers will not add VSAM ESDS files to batch jobs -- they will move forward a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 3 Not under consideration

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