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RDz gets ICH408I message printed in the syslog on CARMA connect attempt try to write /u/sys/RSED/.profile

ICH408I message printed in the syslog everytime a user connect to CARMA. It seems it and request was denied due to insufficient authority. Administrators may notice that every time we connect thru CARMA, there are messages similar to these in the ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Future consideration

IMS emergency restart

IMS emergency restart should be able to handle the situation where IMS is shutdown ( creating a restart checkpoint ), the cold-started, but cold-start abends before taking any checkpoint. At present IMS emergency restart cannot process across a fa...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Provide dataset allocation factor to TAAM for z/OS

UBISS is a CA ALLOCATE user. We want to substitute it with our TAAM and we need to match the following functionality .CA Allocate has a function that allows to allocate a dataset starting from the characteristics and definitions of another existin...
about 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 2 Future consideration

CICS Performance Analyzer 5.2 change Report RECFM to FBA

Output List Datasets out of CICSPA 5.2 Reports with are automatically created with RECFM FBM.This cannot be changed. We need RECFM FBA for printing.
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 16 Not under consideration

Display correct channel of a path when a path is offline

I created a situation to alert us when a channel path goes offline. I also created a policy to send a message indicating the actual path that is offline. However the variable that displays the channel that is offline (&WaitOnSituation1:Channel...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TPF XML B2B Parser support of UTF-8

TPF XML B2B Parser support of UTF-8, currently the Parser only supports EBCDIC.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

refreshing CICS TG web services in a Gateway

We may be using CTG in a high availability application shortly. It appears that, at present, to refresh CICS TG web services, the Gateway daemon needs to be restarted to pick up any changes. A refresh command should be added to remove the need to ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS Explorer and CECI functionality

CECI functionality is currently absent from CICS Explorer.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS RECEIVE ... NOCHANGE

We need the ability to make receive of terminal input data without changing the 'status' of the TIOA: EXEC CICS RECEIVE ... NOCHANGE
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow DataTables Record and Index descriptors to span across multiple dataspaces as the records themseves do.

We have been experiencing abend DFHFC0431.The error gets triggered because we hit the 2GB limitation on the Record and Index Descriptors. We ran into this issue with only a single data table defined in the region (it does have 28 million records)....
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration