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Job Log view is needed to handle very large job output

We have CICS region jobs running on different regions. When user wants to see the job log from RDz its throwing heap error. since the output size is more than 3 million lines. I want to act on my job out put rather than viewing 3million lines in o...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

HOD V14.01 Rearrainging Session Icons

Using Rational Host On-Demand V14.01 server-based configuration. The option to rearrange session icons is only available with the HTML-based configuration. Would like this option using the server-based model. It is very important to our end base u...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Create new web socket timeout attribute

Like to request a new web socket timeout attribute separate from the DTIMEOUT element. As described in a recent PMR from IBM the DTIMEOUT is designed to release dead locks from other resources. It spends a lot of time issuing automatic retries and...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE authorization interceptor process improvement

z/OS Connect EE's authorization interceptor process internally requires all RACF GROUPs associated with the RACF ID that may belong to either Global Reader Group, Invoke Group, Operator Group, Reader Group to carry unique USS GID for successful va...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS APPL example update

CICS sample VTAM APPL definition does not include LOSTERM=IMMED
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

The ability for CICS to capture data and graph into Grafana/Promethius.

We would like a similar capability that MQ supplies via GitHub that provides capabilities to format display data and allows you to graph it via Grafana/Promethius. This request would not be for a separate chargeable product but provided either in ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add TIMEOUT to an existing VSM pool

We would like to have the ability add a timeout value to an pre-existing VSM pool where TIMEOUT was previously not set dynamically. Currently the only way to add a TIMEOUT value, is to delete the existing VSM pool using VSM DELETE and recreate the...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

APG desired availability NONE

We require a new Desired Available setting for APGs of 'NONE' - i.e. the group doesn't have a 'Desired Available' value and would use the 'worst' status of its members as its Compound and Observed status's. This would mean the group could be ACTIV...
about 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

PIC X(n) support for binary.

In somme case we are sending/receiving byte buffer. This king of data is typed as byte buffer in java and type PIC X(n) in COBOL. In this case, we need a solution to transfert this kind of data througth JSON to COBOL without conversion.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - INEXIT / PRTEXIT examples and facilities

The INEXIT and PRTEXIT exits make it possible to intervene on the source code read before processing by the compiler, and on the Listing produced by the compiler before restitution. The Cobol Report Writer component uses these exits: it transforms...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

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