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TPFUG: Provide z/TPF zMQ API that returns the associated Remote or Local zMQ Name(s) for a specified zMQ Dynamic Queue Name

1. It is necessary to be able to enquire on the z/TPF Resources used by zMQQs associated with z/TPF zEVent processing, particularly z/TPF System Work Blocks (zSWB) usage and zMQDepth. 2. For this to be done all local, remote, aliased, dynamic zMQQ...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ETL utility and JCL script to automate the DB2 data Loading process into IZTA

This will help the customer to load the DB2-UNLOADED data directly into shared dataspaces (VTS-TSR).
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Planned for future release

Display OMEGAMON Global Data Area startup options in the Enhanced 3270

CICS administrators logon to the Omegamon (classic) and use command GLOB GLOB to verify that each CICS regions is using the correct Global Data Area startup options. If the Enhanced 3270 was able to display the Global Data Area options, these admi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Allow typing during application is working

It happens that transactions inside the CICS-application may need more time to finish from time to time. The end user knows the normal response time and starts or continue typing as a moment where the transaction have not finished. In this case th...
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Ship as PDSE for performance

With C header files in PDSes they cannot be cached in Z/OS and every compile needs to fetch from disk. If these were in PDSEs they they can be cached and avoid the I/O. See https://colinpaice.blog/2020/11/23/avoiding-i-o-by-caching-your-pdses-it-m...
over 2 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Record CICSPlex SM WLM routing decision to CICS SMF for post processing

CICSPlex SM Workload management should record routing algorithm decisions to SMF for post processing by products like CICS Performance Analyzer. In addition to having the capability to record routing decisions to SMF, customers should have the fle...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for character escaping in API requester scenario

To call some services we are required to avoid certain characters, such as the comma and such, which may exist in the COBOL input strings, and replace them in the JSON by standard symbols such as ' . We thought of using an interceptor to ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

When an ISV vendor has a comma in their name remove it before populating the IZSAM Db2 repository.

There are several ISV vendors with a comma in there company name and when you use the data extracted from IZSAM in CSV format this creates an issue when reading the file with another program. If you were to scan the ISV vendor company name and rem...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 3 Not under consideration

Enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4)

We need to enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4) to complete a job with an error state. Currently, there is no post-EQQMEP1L confirmation panel that requires you to verify a job data before completing your job. Because of ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Update CICS Command REWRITE as THREADSAFE for shared data table, coupling facility data table

CICS Command REWRITE as THREADSAFE for shared data table and coupling facility data table
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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