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IMS OTMA utilization of 64-bit memory for the YTIBs

Each YTIB for an IMS OTMA queued message consumes about 8K of Extended Private Storage from the IMS CTL region. To know how many YTIBs you can afford it depends how much EPVT the IMS CTL region uses at various times. To estimate of how much space ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 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

z/OS Connect AT-TLS Aware/Controlling

z/OS Connect as AT-TLS Aware or Controlling. This allows z/OS Connect to use APIs of the IBM Communications Server. Features are not limited to but can include inquiring attributes of certificates passed during the SSL/TLS handshake.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

64-bit support for C/C++ under CICS Transaction Server

One of our customers is creating a C/C++ application for financial services (broker). This application is running in a CICS transaction environment. Because of high transaction workload we are suffering storage constraint because C/C++ is still li...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Creation a DFHXQxxxI message to monitor the percentage of "lists in use" in a CF Structure.

Hello, We use Temporary Storage Queue in a shared environment.As we noticed messages monitoring the percentage of entries and elements in use, we didn't notice a DFHXQ...I message for monitoring the percentage of lists in use?This request refers t...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Global ENQ's Wait for a Cics Resource Dispatch Philosophy to be redesigned

To day when an Enqueue is wanted for a Resource between Cics Regions or LPARS, that is CEDA definition with ENQScope other than blank.ENQScope : XXXX, and ends up enq GRS ENQS. It can end up in, that one Cics Region can monopolize transactions hav...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide Liberty level details of z/OS Connect address space – related to connection pool usage point

Require the ability to monitor the connection pools (session usage, free/in use/waiting) by individual connection name, in order to identify resource usage for problem determination and increase in traffic/usage. This will allow us to plan ahead i...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Future consideration

Having a report that can have a date selection and the MSU value in IGZS, which is close to the SCRT report.

Right now, we are comparing SCRT Report with IGZS Tables , but the values are not matching and not having option to go over date using KPMZLP05
12 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Under review

zExplorer to support edit of local files containing x'0D in COBOL PICTURE clause

The issue is when they copy from the host (IBM1047) to local (UTF-8) and the program contains the hex value '0D'. It is being translated to '3F'. IDz COBOL Editor can preserve x'0D in a value clause but only when editing remote datasets. It doesn'...
12 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Allow Read-Only access to Named Counter Server pools

We are using IBM Named Counter Servers as the storage facility for our Slow Roll infrastructure on the mainframe. Only Alter and Control Access is offered for the Named Counter Servers. For our implementation, READ access is required. Access to th...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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