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Supersessions delete cause session to go blocked.

deleting a session causes it to go blocked. Nothing in the description of the delete function mention causing sessions to go blocked.
about 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

W3C SOAP/JMS with CICS Webservices

We are using the W3C SOAP/JMS spec which represents the target service using a <SOAPJMS_targetService> element. This specification did not exist when the MQ/JMS support was first written in CICS, which means we cannot use it. When receiving ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

RDz Code Coverage comparison report

The current Code Coverage report has "comparison" features, but it only shows the number of line increase / decrease. It should also show the exact code statement. Otherwise we cannot know which line are newly covered / not covered by the new test...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Report detailed target AOR health to MVS WLM using IWM4HLTH

Looking for an alternative to having to use "fat" TORs to receive inbound web requests and then dynamically route business logic to target AORs. Problem:A CICSplex topology typically consists of TORs and AORs . The TORs and AORs are used to separa...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Add ability to add code page as "IBM01047"

A z/os Explorer customer also uses File Manager with a Microsoft Focus plugin.The plugin does not read the code page as IBM-1047.Instead the code page has to be in this format, IBM01047.
about 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 6 Delivered

CICS DFHEIENT R13 as CODEREG

When coding an assembler command level CICS program, although there is nothing stop a programmer from coding R13 as a, or one of the, CODEREG registers (unless perhaps using the LEASM option). However, using R13 as a CODEREG is not valid, as the p...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

Ability to connect to CICS IA through SM Perspective in CICS Explorer

We notice that when we try to connect to IA from the CICS SM perspective in order to do a dependency check on a resource we find that we are presented with an internal error:No Connectable set for connection category 'com.ibm.cics.ia.connection.db...
over 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

CM to provide before/after for ADD to LIST

Make CM compatible with DFHCSDUP by providing the BEFORE/AFTER option when adding a GROUP to a LIST
over 12 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Need more control over the SYSPLEX/PLEXVIEW proxy selection process

Currently the SYSPLEX/PLEXVIEW proxy is selected by chance and as a result it happens regularly that the selected proxy runs on a low resource LPAR (limited MSU availability and additional heavily used) which then slows data display in the Enhance...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Delivered

Omegamon for Java - add requests per second value

We are using the Omegamon for Java to monitor z/OS Connect EE. RFE is to request Omegamon for Java ( OM4J ) to be enhanced to provide a requests per second value that can then be used in situations.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Delivered