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    The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

    If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
    almost 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    TXSeries supports DB2 pureScale on Linux

    TXSeries supports DB2 pureScale for AIX platform, but not for Linux.TXSeries for Linux also should support DB2 pureScale for customres who requires high reliability and high performance for mission critical system.
    over 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Program Analyzer should install custom rules in writeable USS folder and not in usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr

    Currently, the Program Analyzer is installed in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg. This location is read-only, so we cannot save our own rules in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr. The usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr folder should be moved to a writable location (perhaps /var/...). As a wor...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

    IDZ Software Analyzer Batch with 5 severity levels

    In the IDz Client you have a choice to switch between 3 or 5 levels. This is under "Software Analyzer" -> "Severity Levels". But if you run a Batch Job you can not configure that you have 5 levels in the Rules Dataset.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

    IDZ Software Analyzer Custom Rules - Add in customised message for the rules covering the section

    The storage working section might consists of hundred of lines of code and the standard error displayed in this formatting: <File>:<beginning line of section> <rule description>. THis is limitation to look for the line number of ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

    Reverse Order Button

    When multiple programs thru a batch job or thru a workspace scan the ordering of the results is always the rule and then the underlying programs with their line numbers. It makes more sense if the program is the header and then the metrics or rule...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

    Show actual start time of the active tasks on "cicsadmin list task" command output

    When we check the active tasks by using cicsadmin command, we noticed that the displayed start time of the tasks isn't correct. Instead of the actual start time, current time and date information, which belongs to the time when we run cicsadmin co...
    over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    CICS WEB APIs supported by TXSeries compatible with CICS TS API same IDEA opened for CICS TX

    the API of CICS TS and CICS WEB, they are not exactly the same. Following CICS WEB APIs are supported by TXSeries to work CICS application as HTTP clients: WEB PARSE command WEB OPEN command WEB CONVERSE command WEB CLOSE command ...
    over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    dynamically allocating memory for region pool and task shared pool

    Please see the responses from the PMR below: IBM Update10/17/16 5:19 PMWe understand the customer update. However, dynamically allocating the memory for region pool and task shared pool is not supported for CICS environment. We verified the code a...
    about 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

    Missing CCSID 850/858 locale settings for AIX to minimize characters lost in translation to DB2 LUW

    Missing CCSID 850/858 locale settings for AIX to minimize characters lost in translation to DB2 LUW
    over 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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