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Native RTC integration

Native RTC integration is required
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CPSM API: A new query function to identify available CMAS's

The CPSM API should support a new query function that could be called prior to any CONNECT operation. This query would scan and locate all active ESSS's on the local LPAR via the z/OS subsystem chain, extracting from each ESSS information about al...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

API for accessing CFDT's from non-CICS workloads.

Please provide an API to allow non-CICS workloads to access Coupling Facility Data Tables (CFDT).
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Simplify the use of OTMA descriptors

PROCLIB member DFSYDTx follows the same rule as the ETO descriptor members DFSDSCMx using a one byte suffix. The value must match the SUFFIX= parameter of the IMSGEN system definition macro with the result that we can only create one DFSYDTx membe...
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

AD Build Client fails IDMS MODULES

Problem description and business impact We are using AD 5050 on Windows Server 2016. AD Build Client fails IDMS MODULES, the parser does not know how to handle MODULES, there is no shared build folder for IDMS Modules available and when adding the...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

System Policy for Terminal Create

System Policy Rule for Terminal Create/Nocreate to replace an existing RTA rule.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

System Policy for Terminal Inservice

System Policy Rule for Terminal Inservice to replace an existing RTA evaldef/action
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve how the move instruction with differing lengths is handled

There has been a lot of discussion on the assembler forum on issues with the MVC and differing length fields. Sample macros have been added that help assist in this area. Many customers have home written macros. Example statements include: 'Storag...
over 12 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 5 Not under consideration

Query zD&T License Count

A REST api to return the number of licenses in use and the total number of licenses. This would be applicable to all types of licenses (ex: Enterprise and Parallel Sysplex)
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Pause/Resume zD&T

In order to manage zD&T licenses and avoid having to ipl (or dynamically configure an instance of a running z/OS under zD&T), we are requesting the following: The ability to “pause” or “Quiesce” a running z/OS within the emulator and free ...
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

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