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Need a way to inhibit and resume CARMA connection

We have Endevor maintenance task that need all users to leave Endevor, such that we can perform the batch job such as reorg, backup, etc. In ISPF we can do this by inhibit the Endevor panel, or even force users to logoff from TSO. With introdcing ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"

From FITS MR0521136959 CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"Changes were made to the 110 records to help with merging the 110s from the TOR, AOR and FOR.  However, apparently one data element was not included in that effort (original ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

confirmation pop-up when SAVE or PF3 key is entered in edit session

I'm in edit DB2 object and I modified data.when I type PF3 the edit session ended and tha data was saved. as in SPUFI can I have a confirmation pop-up when SAVE or PF3 key is entered ? with the number of modified rows, then I can confirm data chan...
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

xJCL transform utility

As an application developer, if I want to use batch modernization features, I have to manually rewrite all JCLs to xJCL. Can we have any tool/utility to do the batch transformation? Meanwhile, We're using Control-M scheduler, and we have job depen...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Dump Viewer SQL trace

The customer is requesting that the dump viewer as part of TPF-Toolkitand within z/TPF ensure that SQL trace is collected within z/TPF plus then enable means to view it within TPF Toolkit..
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Debug Tool: High CPU consumption of CICS transactions using E.C.LINK

The CPU consumption of a transaction in CICS performing about 20.000 E.C.LINK calls is 26 times higher when running under a debugging session. (IGNORELINK is set ON)The Debug Tool should not increase the CPU usage of a debugged transaction in such...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide documentation on auxiliary and GTF trace record formats

Provide documentation on the contents and layout of CICS Auxiliary trace and GTF trace records.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

The LPEX opens some members in packed format

Some members of PDS datasets (JCL, LOAD, PARAM) were edited using the option PACK ON under MVS.. The LPEX opens these members in packed format, not readable. We cannot issue the command PACK OFF under RDz
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Exception Handling with 8.5.1 RBD

Need to add this property by default with RBD version's In RBD 8.5( and within updated v8.0.1.x versions) a new runtime property egl.service.rest.exception.debug was introduced for security reasons: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/rbdhelp/v8r5m0...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

RPP - tooltip during insertion of a macrostructure

When a user wants to add a macrostructure in a program (?-CP?) and enhance the settings, it would be nice to have a tooltip for each parameter with explanations. This would help the entry.
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration