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Reduce maximum CRPA C-O-W storage requirements

On several occasions we have increased our CRPA C-O-W area to avoid the 80% full warning issued by CNG0 SNAPC-064080, however increasing this limit results ina reduction in VFA size due to the extra CRPA page and segment table that are allocated.N...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Allow %INCLUDE and %XINCLUDE to appear within preprocessor procedures

Allow %INCLUDE and %XINCLUDE to appear within preprocessor procedures and also resolve %INCLUDEs, %XINCLUDEs, and macro invocations within ANSWER strings. Example: ? SYSLIB member QSUB: %DCL QSUB ENTRY; %QSUB: PROC; ANSWER('/* QSUB */'); %END QSUB...
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

MAL pending (24) error. WLMSPEC with two owners.

A transaction (SVL$) was removed from the CRE003 transaction group and added to SEG003 transaction group. This transaction was installed in two different Specifications: SPC64$10 and SPC65$00. The SPC65$00 has two different owners: M204 and M314. ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Is a defect

Automatic detection of current RRDS by RDDS Extraction utility. (old MR092111406 )

Customer would like to create a copy of the old IMSGEN macro based on the latest information contained in his IMS sistem and stored into DRD RDDS Data set; these will be used in case of problems to recover the subsystem.The IMS RDDS Extraction uti...
over 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 4 Not under consideration

Display list of programs in 31 or 64 bit COW areas

Currently there is no display to show a list of programs allocated in each C-O-W CRPA program area. This would be useful to identify which programs might be considered for migration to the normal C-O-W area.This information is available in the IPA...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Move TYPE=DATA programs from C-O-W to normal CRPA program area

Currently all TYPE=DATA programs are allocated by default in the C-O-W program area but the majority are never updated.Better to allocate these programs in the normal CRPA area which offers some protection against core corruption and does not attr...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Define multiple resource in BAS with same name but different properties for different applications

System: BAS resource managementActor: System Administrators Description: We are trying to migrate our resource definitions from shared-CSD to Data Repository. When using shared-CSD, we can store resource definitions into different group for differ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Request changes to IMS Global Online change

Currently we are using IMS Global Online Change in our 10 Way IMS Datasharing environment. We are currently looking at migrating to IMS V12. We use an Early Validation when migrating to a new version of IMS however it was identified that we can no...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

IMS Transactions and Large Attachments

More and more clinical artifacts, e.g. XRays, MRIs, and genetic info, etc. are being digitized. Today customers use a manual type of process to coordinate files for claims. It is desirable to have transactional integrity support for claim processi...
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 3 Not under consideration

RDz RSE Support for SMF Records Based on User ID

Currently the z/OS component for RDz called RSE does not identify individual RDz users. JPMC like many large customers do "Chargeback" to bill each customer based on system usage. Under RSE there is not way to do this. The customer has requested t...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

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