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Customer would need the CPU Time spent for DLI activity to be separately accounted

Customer would need to have separately accounted in TYPE56FA TLS Accounting Log Record the CPU Time spent for DL/I activity.Currently TPEXTIME field contains the cumulative CPU Time spent for the comprehensive Transaction processing.For a Customer...
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Allow editing in monitor with WRAP ON and long variables

Currently when a field cannot be fully displayed due to its length you can edit itonly when wrap is set off.However it is very uncomfortable to edit very long fields in such a way.When setting wrap on, you may not edit the field.Our request is to ...
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

zDT sync with native z/OS

As zDT is improving and increasing its capabilities and functionalities we would like to have a tool to synchronize changes made in zDT (development environments) into our master/native z/OS development environment ("sync back"). As last compilati...
about 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 6 Not under consideration

IMS AMS - Advanced Message Service

Implement IMS functionality to support MQ Series Advanced Message Services (AMS) for transactions using the IMS-bridge connection.IMS applications are already today able explore this functionality if the design is to use MQ explicit access to the ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate BMP checkpoint messages from an archive sysprint

Right now we are trying to eliminate all of our USERMODS in order to be in a more IBM standard way. We almost achivied this task but one of our USERMODS can not be eliminate. The USERMOD is the MI00012. This USERMOD gives you the option to skip wr...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Make the z / OS Health Checker Customizable via an Administrator transaction and SIT – overwrites

Make the z / OS Health Checker Customizable via an Administrator transaction and SIT – overwrites.---See 30535,077,724.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Resolve huge ECSA usage problem caused by DMHR

Our customer is now designing new account system and they caused ECSA shortage by plenty of DMHRs.This main contributing factor is BMP batch a lot of insert calls toward one area.When initial create they needs to insert 800 million root segments t...
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

MQSeries MQMD data available using an IMS INQY call.

If possible we prefer to connect our MQ Series clients using OTMA, since this solution is more scalable. To minimize allocation of IMS resources, we have made it possible to run these applications in an asyncronous way. Our challenge is to be able...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Enhance FILEDDWORD Built-in Function

Please add support for LRECL and BLKSIZE.
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

INFO/INFO2 codes in Config Manager error messages should be documented

Some messages that the CICS Configuration Manager product produces contain codes, referred to as INFO and INFO2 codes, that are not documented and require involvement from IBM support before they can be interpreted, understood, and a solution for ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration