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Application level data on Continuous Data Collection

ITM currently provides system level monitoring. However, there is a huge need to be able to drill down to application level monitoring. The current standard data collection has the ability to get file statistics and program statistics. However, th...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Prot record initialization

When bring up a loosely coupled z/TPF from a zero'ed data base the prot records (#PRORI.) both tape and utility records should be initialized programmatically by the using program.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

SuperC(option 3.12) High CPU usage

We have a user reporting his observations of very high CPU consumption and running long for PGM=ISRSUPC when any kind of DPLINE control card is involved during comparing of two files. The user says ISRUPC used to be a whole lot faster and consume ...
over 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 5 Not under consideration

TOS Console Fallback

When performing manual console fallback from a given TOS/OSA-ICC 3215 device due to operator entry/response being Out-Of-Sequence (OOS), it appears that when returning to the same device, the associated OSA-ICC card has not always been reset prope...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Adv Audit for DFSMShsm integration with Local Tape Mgmt Software

Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm integration with Brazilian Local Tape Management Software
over 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm 2 Future consideration

Real-time syntax check should flag obvious syntax errors

Currently, the real time syntax does not flag the error in the statement IF VAR1 > 0 ELSE <--- ADD 1 TO VAR1. The compiler does not accept this and issues messageIGYPS2079-S Expected a verb or "NEXT SENTENCE", but found "ELSE". The statement...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Future consideration

CICSAS auto check XA connection and recover broken connection with resource management(such as Database)

The client expect TXSeries can provide a group of parameters for XA connection. During CICS is in idle, it can auto-check XA connection with resource manager( database), if checking is failed, the idle CICSAS will keep retrying by short-term and l...
over 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

ENTRY POINT CONTAINER DEFINITION

We are running Java and PL/1 in an application context. As the developers have started to integrate Java in our environment we have the need of an communication between two applications. This all works fine, if you are not shipping data from one l...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

mask password on ZKEYS BACKUP/RESTORE/VALIDATE

ZKEYS BACKUP/RESTORE/VALIDATE password not masked on the CSMP0099I echoed response. Please update CVAU and CKYZ to do this just like was done for ZKEYS PASSWORD. Thanks
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Need API count for CICS Transactions/Programs

I am requesting a feature that would allow me to get a count by API, all the APIs that were executed during the life of a CICS program or Transaction.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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