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XPCS workarea allocated in 24 bit storage causing subsequent program load failures.

When the CDC exit gets loaded it is in the dependentregions storage and the XPCB and XSDB control blocks are in the dependent region private storage according to the AMODE of the exit. . The XPCS workarea is being allocated in only 24 bit storage ...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Is a defect

IBM Debug: Search function for program literals to add to Monitor

Hello IBM,we like to have a functionality that was found in Xpediter: When you want to add a variable/literal to the Monitors view "Monitor Expression" and you're not 100% sure how it's call, you should have the option to search for the name of th...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Suppress conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options

The conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options could be resolved by implicitly introducing a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE STATIC" before "EXEC CICS" and a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE" after the "END-EXEC" clause. ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

ADDI: Impact analysis between programs

The user specifies at least 2 programs between which the direct and indirect (via other programs) calls could be made. Programs, which are not in the call chain between the indicated programs, are not indicated in the diagram. Other artifacts such...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Improving z/OS Connect resilience

To wrap outbound API calls with Circuit Breaker and Bulkhead patterns provided by Liberty mpFaultTolerance-2.0 feature
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect AT-TLS Aware/Controlling

z/OS Connect as AT-TLS Aware or Controlling. This allows z/OS Connect to use APIs of the IBM Communications Server. Features are not limited to but can include inquiring attributes of certificates passed during the SSL/TLS handshake.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Cloud Agnostic Interface

In order to support multiple cloud providers, define a pluggable interface or an adaptor interface that will be able to accommodate a few different major cloud providers, such as * Google compute engines * Amazon Some cloud providers support the a...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

adcd install advanced archive for DFSMSHSM

I am interested in trying to use HSM to backup to a NAS......... and I learning about (and blogging about) IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aafd/1.1) so I can backup to minio on Linux
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

CICS IPIC use of Sysplex Distributor for High Availability and Workload Balancing purposes

We would like CICS to use Sysplex Distributor to balance workload from a requester region in a SYSPLEX to several server regions in another SYSPLEX over IPIC connections on every transaction execution. Our requirement is similar to RFE 24351 but a...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Customer OPEL - Multiple cobol Nested Programs with same Program ID

The customer OPEL has a situation with multiple nested cobol Programs and most of the nested programs has the same Program ID(MAINPROG) and hence this is listed multiple times under cobol programs which customer feels difficult to understand becau...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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