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Consistent and product provided (dialog) functionality to handle PDB and SOCNTL via GDG

Currently there is no product provided solution to have a time consistent backup from PDB and SOCNTL. To have a GDG support for the SOCNTL the manual descibes a way to build and copy only the SOCNTL manualy. From our perspective this isn't a way t...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

NetView : allow NETVONLY=cmdname in MRT

Client requests update of the NETVONLY function in MRT message revision table, to allow NETVONLY=cmdname, same as it functions today for CRT command revision table. Reason for this request is there may be compare/evaluation methods used in the MRT...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

CICS WEB APIs supported by TXSeries compatible with CICS TS API same IDEA opened for CICS TX

the API of CICS TS and CICS WEB, they are not exactly the same. Following CICS WEB APIs are supported by TXSeries to work CICS application as HTTP clients: WEB PARSE command WEB OPEN command WEB CONVERSE command WEB CLOSE command ...
almost 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CICS WEB APIs supported by TXSeries compatible with CICS TS API

the API of CICS TS and CICS WEB, they are not exactly the same. Following CICS WEB APIs are supported by TXSeries to work CICS application as HTTP clients: WEB PARSE command WEB OPEN command WEB CONVERSE command WEB CLOSE command If you look into ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS TX 0 Future consideration

customizable values in the generated JCL

The size of the files for generation of JCL (e.g. for Compile Link Debug) is hard coded. That should be customizable.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Future consideration

Command execution available in IMS ABCODETRAN and ABCODEPROG minor resources

If a transaction (or program) fails there is no way to trigger a command as an answer to the ABEND CODE minor resource fitering. So far only recovery INCLUDE or EXCLUDE as "Code" are allowed options to react. There should be also an option to exec...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Better handling of message inserts agains stopped TPIPEs and transactions

When applications perform asynchronous callouts over a TPIPE and the distributed service, which should receive the messages isn't available it comes to a queuing in IMS. Depending on the amount of asynchronous callouts the message queue can get fi...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

CMDMON - Show Actual Parent Command issuing command

Have the CMDMON DISPLAY command show the actual REXX procedure that issued the command and not the REXX procedure that started the chain.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Prevent errors with PIPE CZR if CANZLOG data is not available

Prevent message errors if reading CANZLOG data via the PIPE CZR command when part of the time frame is not available.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Addtional information on check report

Check report in AD incorrectly miss some information about IDMS components (schemas, subschemas, records and modules)
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

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