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The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
11 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Flag RX instructions with index but no base register

It has been a common malpractice since more than half a century not to use a base register but the index register in rx instructions, e.g. L Ra,100(Rb) instead of L Ra,100(,Rb). Historically, this implied some performance penalty (AFAIR), nowadays...
almost 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 2 Not under consideration

Allow to interrupt before automatic restart. (DFHSJ1009)

We need an indicator before the JVM restarts (80% of runaway time), to allow us to shift the workload, before the JVM restarts. This topic was already discussed in a meeting with Hursley and the German CICS Tech Sales.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

INQUIRE TSQNAME for remote TS on TSOR (TSMODEL)

I need to know if a TS is already used by someone else. TS are routed to another CICS, via a TSMODEL defintion. TS are created in the TSOR. But an INQUIRE TS in the router CICS doesn't INQUIRE the TS list in the routed CICS, but localy.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Increase performance of OTMA CM0 tpipes

Using CM0 IMS logging of intput and output messages becomes a bottleneck as message throughput increases on a tpipe. This is often hard to discern as internal transaction responses are unaffected but messages may be significantly delayed on enteri...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Not under consideration

DB Quiesce without RM in IMSPLEX

We have an application which has 20 single IMS production systems on 10 LPARS (2 IMS each) in one IMSPLEX . Every day at 00:00 AM we have to “DBR” all databases for a consistency point for the application. The procedure of stopping the application...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

Support ability to compare a current segment layout field with a previous segment layout field.

File Manager supports creating templates that map segmented records. A segmented record is one where different portions of the record are mapped with different layouts. The template has to know how to identify which possible segment layouts apply ...
11 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide an option at the time of installing a component to not install tables where no reports are provided in the product.

When a component is installed give the customers the option to not install tables with no real usage or reporting built into the software and add to the documentation that these tables are just "nice to haves".
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need Cross Application Forward/Backward call chain reports across projects added to UI

Need reporting capabilities added to Analyze Client UI with an exportable report that allows one to see and filter Cross Application Forward and Backward Call Chain. Reporting capabilities should include capabilities to filter and export data by 1...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

In a resource overrides .yaml file, allow multiple attribute values within a single selector clause to be OR'd.

Currently the logic would seem to support 1 attribute value on a given selector clause. If I have a resource attribute which can have many possible values and I want to trap some set of those values and apply the same override to each one, I have ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Future consideration