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Include 45xx statistics records in the calculation of Average Checkpoint Duration, Average Checkpoint Frequency, and CPLOG count to the Checkpoint Summary portion of the Checkpoint Report.

IMS writes statistics records (45xx) at every checkpoint just before the checkpoint records (40xx). I would like to see something like this: Start 12Sep2024 00:00:37:75 IMS Performance Analyzer End 12Sep2024 00:01:53:25 Page 1 Checkpoint Summary ...
3 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL - Add support for BINARY-CHAR, BINARY-SHORT, BINARY-LONG, BINARY-DOUBLE as alternative to COMP-5

Hi, The COMP-5 USAGE, (or TRUNC(BIN) compilation option), allows binary values ​​to be stored according to the entire storage capacity of the machine's internal representation. However COMP-5 is a constructor implementation and have portability...
6 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

Allow an IMS unit test case to be able to record data when target program is in message processing loop

If you use Test Accelerator for Z to create a unit test case for an IMS tran/program, if the program is in a loop where it waits for a msg, then processes the IMS msg, then goes back to wait for the next msg, you need to stop the IMS batch job and...
6 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Delay processing of missed messages when NetView address space is recycled

We use the MVSPARM.Msg.Automation.MaxAge = 600 function, so NV will catch up on messages following a recycle of the address space. However, we recently missed automating a message following a recycle as it was coded in SA’s INGMSG02 table and this...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Allow logical operation on filters in CPSM WUI and Explorer

A long time ago, when we only had the CPSM TSO Interface, we were able to use the filters in a smarter way by building them on some variables using each variable more than one, in other words, we could make conditional sentences. For example, we c...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Upgrade Kafka Client

The Kafka broker version we use is well in advance in compare to the Kafka Client 2.8.1. It produces unnecessary warnings on z/TPF. Moreover we would like to be proactive and be open to new features as well as to keep security enhancements u...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

AD - Analyze client Legend icon shall appear in the menu bar next to other icons, but not under expandable menu

On AD Analyze client v611 we found that Legend icon is not visible any longer next to other icons (on this small menu bar), but instead it is hidden under pop-up menu. This is not very convenient, as when needed to use this Legend icon feature, de...
3 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Improve performance of C++ try/catch when exception is thrown

Our coding best practice guidelines advise developers not to use the try-throw-catch method in C++ code for control of the program flow or transaction validation as the underlying TPF mechanism for identifying the source of the thrower results in ...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Use CICS Policy to replace CPSM RTA functionality (Check if LU62 Connection is Aquired)

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not check for LU62 Connection Acquired to CICS, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do c...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

PDELETE: for managing physical data provide a retention period instead of a date from when to delete.

The issue was discussed at the last IZSAM workshop in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and I was asked to create an idea for it: In IZSAM Physical Delete function there should be something like PDEL=nn where nn stands for "keep physical data for nn+current...
6 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

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