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Integrate JEE workload called via Link to Liberty into CICS units of work

The link to liberty functionality is a base functionality for our future strategy of using CICS.The development paradigm of new applications is based on a JEE subset that is provided by liberty and the unique value of placing these applications on...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

JCics Maven Repository

Our Installation is RDZ 9.0, RAD 9.0 and Datastudio 4.x. We want to use Java in cics together with common Java Librarys like Primefaces to build Liberty JSF Pages. This librarys all depend on maven, which is today state of the art an makes life ju...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

DB0101 dump should contain pointer to bad lrec

In production we most often run with no macro or system traces active. Would request that DB0101 dumps either contain some register which is addressing the LREC which has an invalid length, or even update SW00REC with a pointer to the bad LREC.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Add additional Key fields for CICS PA zOS Connect Summary Report/Extract/Forwarding

Currently zOS Connect report allows 3 key fields. Running reports with 3 key fields gives only high level summary and in many cases this report is not providing much value in problem determination. Having additional Key fields will help us summari...
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

Please validate TPF Operations Server (TOS) on Windows 2022

We are trying to make some new servers for our TOS installation, and there is a push for us to use Windows 2012 in order to put off the inevitable next upgrade upgrade a little longer. Could it be ready before January 2023?
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Delivered

Allow more flexible BUNDLE definitions

BUNDLE definitions at present time do not allow to use relative paths or system variables to be specified in the path
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Allow declaring a default connection in Connections View

The logon mask does not come up automatically when you start the explorer. There should be a default connection that automatically connects after starting.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

Change existing VSAM open behavior

An abend during processing invokes a VSAM open of IDISVENU dataset. This VSAM OPEN causes memory fragmentation as the page is not freed after abend processing. This eventually results in a S106 abend when unable to locate a large enough contiguous...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

API mapping enhanced mapping: simple arithmetic

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include simple arithmetic operations.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Application performance analysis tooling

Performance analysis (run-time) tools are required to identify performance bottlenecks & other critical statistics early in the software development life cycle where they are cheaper to find & fix. They help developers tune an application ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered