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TranClass Queue Expiration Time

Improve the Transaction Class queue to accept defining an expiration time for transactions queued waiting for 1st dispatch. This enhancement will provide de CICS to manage the queue only for transactions that still need to execute and it would rel...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Enhancements for validating DBB toolkit setup/configuration

Please consult the thread at https://github.com/IBM/dbb-zappbuild/discussions/466 I am often asked to validate things with regards to DBB/zAppBuild. Many of these tasks I manually do, though I have a few scripts of my own that do some of it. I rea...
11 months ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Future consideration

Enable CPSM EYU9XLOP as threadsafe in CICS

Need CPSM routing code (EYU9XLOP) to run threadsafe in routing region
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

support for multiple MQ systems in OTMA destination descriptor TYPE=MQSERIES

For high availabity reasons we have configured 2 production lines in the same sysplex:CEC01-LPAR01-IMS01-MQ01CEC02-LPAR02-IMS02-MQ02Both lines are coupled by various product features.I1) IMS01 and IMS02 use the same IMS shared message queueI2) IMS...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Not under consideration

In addition to syntax checking in the Editor, please add semantic checking as well.

Semantic checking of the code in IDz Editor would make mainframe developers even more productive since they still are able to create code in IDz that passes all syntax checks without being valid code. You only see it in the JES Spoolfiles, once yo...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Support of Assembler Subprogram Calls

Currently when recording in zUnit, any subprogram calls to assembler programs are not recorded. For more complete testing of a program it would be beneficial for zUnit to also intercept and record assembler subprogram calls.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Provide code to allow customers to send events to applications via REST API

This would provide a fully supported way for customers using IBM Z System Automation to interface with applications running on z/OS, or other platforms using REST. This would avoid the need for customers to create their own bespoke scripts. It sho...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Implement support for CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax

Currently the Cobol Editor in IDz do not support CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax. For example: The Cobol editor will flag the function EYUVALUE(OK) with "Unable to resolve reference to EYUVALUE".
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavours of SQL

Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavors of SQL (T-SQL AND Oracle SQL). Our team uses IBM DB2 11.1.4.4 Database Server for development activities. We see limitations of DB2 SQ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

KCPTASH view limitation

In the KCPTASH view, when we select a task that was activated by a channel/IP port on a region, the Related section does not display the external IP address/port that activated the task For further questions, please get in touch with Nicola Giangi...
6 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

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