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CICS access to SIT suffix used

We have some CICS code that displays CICS startup info, that is used for debugging. One of the fields we display was the SIT suffix. Prior to TS5.2, we would get the CSASITBA address from the CSA and subtract a few bytes to see the DFHSIT eyecatch...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Ability to have more than 6 PSB datasets

File Manager for IMS needs to support having 50+ datasets in the PSB lib concatenation, instead of the single digit limitation it currently has.
about 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

PTDB0899-215 IMS - Dynamic allocation/deallocation of external subsystems datasets

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Pierre MaroisSubmitters Company: TD Bank Financial Group PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PTDB0899-215 IMS - Dynamic allocation/deallocation of external subsystems datasetsHomework Assigned: Requirement Category: ...
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

W0914-1740 (PSG) New CICSPlex SM routing algorithm

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: guceda@produban.comSubmitters Company: Produban-Santander Group PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: W0914-1740 (PSG) New CICSPlex SM routing algorithmHomework Assigned: Requirement Category: e-BusinessCurrent Status:...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Ameliorate duplication COBOL code from a program to another program

Ameliorate duplication COBOL code from a program to another program. In PACBASE when you want to COPY a part of code to another program, you only overwrite the name of the program.That's all. With RPP, when you COPY/PASTE to another program, this ...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

RPP perspective - Keep a list of open editors from one session to the next.

Actually, when we reopen RPP worskpace, we don't have directly then opened resources that we had when it had been closed.For Java development (Eclipse, WSAD, ...) it is the native behavior: When an existing workspace is reopend, we find the same o...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Not under consideration

Improve CICS New Program Support messages or elimiate dependency on the CICS region which owns EQADPFMB starting first

Improve Debug Tool diagnostics, and reduce problem determination time when using DTCN with the VSAM file for AOR/TOR CICS regions. This can be accomplished by eliminating the requirement of the FOR containing the EQAPOFMB file coming up first. If ...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Need logic in IMS and DBRC to 'synchronize' the process between IMS and DBRC during termination

When an IMS /CHE FREEZE command was issued the DBRC address space took a S0C1 abend which caused the IMS Control Region to abend with an U0495. My understand is that there is a synchronization issue between the different address spaces within IMS ...
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Granularite des cs lors de la migration PACBASE vers RTC

La granularite des cs lors de la migration est au niveau component RTC (donc biblioth?que PAC). plusieurs centaines de fichiers avec le m?me change set. Cela pose probleme lors d'un report de modification d'un fichier entre deux streams si l'ordre...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Eliminate recording mode warning

RECORDING MODE is an IBM extension that is required only to "specif[y] the format of the physical records in a QSAM file", and unless one needs format 'U' it can be assumed based on the other characteristics of the file definition. I would like to...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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