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Allow CICS(APPLID) to be specified via the EXEC PARM for CBKBMAIN

Allow the target CICS region (or group of regions) to be specified via the PARM field of the EXEC card.
about 10 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Experiencing SOS in EDSA Storage not releasing

A transaction is a mirror transaction that reads file SRSEVENT. After SOS condition, we see the transaction abending with an AFCI. We are seeing the storage in ECDSA did not free. We were curious why Storage did not free after the transaction aben...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Support of edit function for character code in PCOMM product

IBM Personal communication (PCOMM) is the product to translate the character code between Windows and Mainframe.We would like to use an external character except on Mainframe (z/OS), but PCOMM are required for some IBM CCSID code and can NOT trans...
about 10 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 3 Not under consideration

For Fault Analyzer: Secure FA id at all published IDI0066I messages

We use FA id to get full information about CICS abends to secure action being provided. We monitor IDI0002I/3I and IDI0066I messages and at some lack of FA id for IDI0066I we are not able to get a reference for every abend to get the full picture ...
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

z/TPF TCP/IP Keepalives flooding the network

Today on a system we have 125,000 socket blocks defined, and we are reaching a peak of 90,000 active sockets through the day. We run with Keepalive active so we can ensure they are still valid, and currently have the TCPALIVE interval set to 360 s...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Support FAST receiver channels (avoid MQ bridge)

The current z/TPF receiver channel support for FAST channels forces all non-persistent messages into the MQ ROUTC Bridge code. We are requesting a change to make the FAST channel option on z/TPF the same as on other platforms in that it will place...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

E3270UI Option To Display Time Duration Fields In HH:MM:SS Format.

Certain fields containing time duration information can only be displayed as integers. These fields are defined as "TYPE=I,4". The customer cannot override the Workspace display with "columnname(TIME)" or "columnname(NONE)". The information would ...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Monitor and report on number of requests queued to the command and message processing service thread ( DFSCMTI0 )

Monitor and report on number of requests queued to the command and message processing service thread ( DFSCMTI0 ). We would like WTOs at thresholds (either IBM provided or user provided) that could be picked up and acted on by an automation product.
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Allow HLASM to run on an x86 Linux server

Currently the HLASM build only works on a Linux system running on a zSeries mainframe, this restriction means we must purchase an IFL and mainframe storage to run just one Linux server, a TPF Toolkit guest.This IFL runs on the same hardware as our...
about 10 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 2 Not under consideration

sigon exit before signon is complete

Provide a way before signing on a user to allow for verification that the user can use the userid being signed on. Also disconnect users from their sessions if they have PF3ed out of the signon process - i.e. force them to sign on. Can we provide ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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