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CICS System Policy to Monitor Transaction Rate

CICS System Policy to handle the region Transaction Rate. If the Transaction rate exceeds certain threshold value(s) then alert.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Enhance CECI to show CVDA text value

Enhance CECI to be able to show the CVDA text instead of only the numeric value. I can see 2 methods of achieving this:1) Extend the functionality of PF2 to cycle through DEC -> HEX -> CVDA....2) Use the 'undefined' PF12 to switch between cu...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

New Date Banner Variables

We need to use dates in Banners with the formats DD/MM/YY / DD/MM/YYYY and YY/MM/DD / YYYY/MM/DD in order to keep the same output format that exists in the actual software.MM/DD/YY & MM/DD/YYY are not an usual format date used for both Clients...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Web requester AT-TLS aware

Outbound web requester (SOAP) EXEC CICS INVOKE WEBSERVICE will use CICS SSL support if HTTPS is the protocol scheme in the URI. Shop standard is to have AT-TLS policy look for outbound HTTP requests to servers and create SSL session to server. In ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Implement a delay before querying a zCentric agent after the workstation became active

When a zCentric workstation goes from Offline to Active status, the controller immediately queries the agent to retrieve the status of the jobs. If the agent does not know the jobs requested by the controller, the latter sets them in UNKN error. ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Kerberos sign on does not work in Personal Communications and Host on Demand

Currently, the current design of PCOMM and HOD doesn't support FQDN with alias host. This entry is opened fro Dev/L3 team to explore and check what API are available in C++ to support the alias hostname to resolve FQDN.
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Implement Code completion for DB2 objects such as tables and column names

Currently the Cobol Editor in IDz v16.x does not provide code completion on DB2 objects. For example: When creating a DB2 select statement within an EXEC SQL code block, it would be nice if the editor was able to provide code completion for DB2 ob...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Add CMT option in the SUSPEND file

Hi When a SUSPEND request is issued from the line command, it is possible to add a comment to the request. When a suspend request id done through a line in the suspend file, we can specify for the resource only the scope and the removal condition....
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

OPCOPTS - Parameter REMJCLDIRECTIVES should be set default as YES since it always caused OPC Fetch Directive error if not set to YES

As this Parameter REMJCLDIRECTIVES current default set to NO is an very old design, when we use OPC Fetch Directive, the JCL will always throw error anyway. This mean REMJCLDIRECTIVES(YES) will be mandatory. However, this should also take in cons...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Using existing Credentials in CICS Connection Test option of CTG Explorer

It could be a good idea to associate to each CTG Connection a credential as its done in other Connections (CMCI, FTP, z/OSMF...) when you go to a CICS Connection Test instead of having a unique entrance of User & Password to all CTG's defined
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration

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