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Wrong data about Independent Enclave

TEP data shoes wrong information about process of DB2 subsystems. Sometimes (in case of high load) data about Independent Enclave shown are above maximum possible. PMR 23013,SGC,821
over 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IBM Stand-alone Host On-Demand

Add the "Administration" option to IBM Stand-alone Host On-Demand.The "Administration" option should include the Certificate Management utility and the Printer Definition Table Compiler. These options were present in the HOD Local Client which is ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Not under consideration

Modification to "Save Conflict" Dialog

"Save Conflict" dialog enhancement request: (see attached email)Can we get this dialog box modified to do these two things? 1. Change the default selection of the middle radio button (“Overwrite the remote file”) 2. For the third “save” option, ca...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

RDz integration with OS Connect EE service archive generator and API editor

Provide integration with the z/OS Connect EE service archive generator similar to that provided by the CICS JSON services wizard of Enterprise Service Tools. This integration will facilitate the selection of input language structures and service p...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement for syntax check on copybook

When we used RDZ 8.0.3 we didn't have any problem.Like we are on RDZ 9.5.0 our copybooks have all lines with warning marks.For all copybooks (about 40 000) we use the clause replacing witch consist on change all :XXXX: in the copybook by R1 (by ex...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

MWP enhancement to CICS SMF 110 records

IBM are trying to encourage customers to run mobile applications on z/OS by offering software pricing options such as Mobile Workload Pricing. WLM APAR OA47042 added the ability to identify transactions as MOBILE in the WLM classification rules. H...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Collapse trailing space with DFHWS2LS CICS Web Services Assistent option

Rabobank want to remove trailing spaces in the translation of COBYBOOK format response message to xml in CICS web services.The use of collapse white space removes trailing AND leading spaces. This is not what is needed.Can there be an option in DF...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Limit the expiry time of MQ messages

"Limiting the expiry time of messages:Enable limiting the expiry time of any message put to a queue or topic by using the CAPEXPRY attribute specified in the CUSTOM attribute on the queue or topic."
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

PTHREAD-INSUFFICIENT-STORAGE when CREATE S8 TCB

Customer recently increased MXT and MAXSSLTCB. Now they have encountered theseDFHSO0002 A severe error (code X'0814') has occurred in module DFHSOSE. The trace shows THREAD-INSUFFICIENT-STORAGE when CREATE S8 TCB78004 SP AP 1939 LEPT *EXC* PTHREAD...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Group List doesn't show Resource Group deleted from CSD file as CEDA does.

Group List does not show Resorce Group after Resorce Group was deleted but not removed from Group List . Problem description and business impact If Resource Group was added to Group List and was deleted after, Group List doesn't show this Resource...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration