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Ability to alter DSNAME or attributes of file within CBAC regardless of the type of CICS startup(COLD/WARM/EMER).

The ability to alter the DSNAME or attributes to be effective after a COLD start within CICS Batch Application Control is needed.
over 5 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Object Oriented COBOL support in CICS

Currently Object Oriented COBOL is not available in CICS. We think that CICS should support the entire suite of features in IBM COBOL, so developers can use all the functionality of IBM COBOL, without limitations by the platform.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Webtool - add the possibility for another user to restart zDT

Several users, with different accounts, are managing the zDT instances. We need a new functionnality in the WebTool that detect if the userid is not the one who started the process, check if he can be root, and upgrade his priviledges when restart...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

In CICS: Allow products, like CICS VT, to be driven at end of task processing and before the syncpoint.

CICS VT intercepts CICS File Control requests in the File Contol GLUEs and converts them to DB2 requests. These are leaving the DB2 cursors OPEN.When the task reaches end of task syncpoint, Recovery Manager calls DB2 to PREPARE and COMMIT before t...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

XML Parse with COBOL and XML System Service - better design to avoid truncated XML element content

Current situation:------------------Extra COBOL program logic for every XML element content is necessary to check for split content and to concatenate pieces of content for this case. Enterprise COBOL V5 is running with z/OS XML System Service to ...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Request for new IMS ODBM Query Timeout to stop long-running ODBM Queries from further processing

With our increased usage of IMS ODBM, we have the need for an additional IMS ODBM Query Timeout to stop long-running ODBM Queries from further processing. We would like to be able to specify the Query timeout in both Wall clock time and CPU time.
almost 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Request IBM to add EXPRTIME= for IMS Fast Path transactions

When Fast Path transactions are not processing quickly enough they can back up in IMS, increasing the storage utilized to contain control blocks associated with them. If an IMS expiration value is set, transactions that aren't processed before tha...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 0 Not under consideration

Require to expose the CARMA Endevor API

We want the API allow self developed Eclipse plugin to call the existing CARMA Endevor interface.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

recovery for files edited with carma quick edit

when editing in RDZ 9.5.1 or earlier a member from CARMA, there is no recovery for the file.and no history .
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Ability to see the list of approvers and approval status for an Endevor package

In Endevor, users have the ability to set approvals for a package. This requirement is to allow a user in RDz/CARMA to see the status of approvals.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 4 Not under consideration

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