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New CICS Start Option to Recover and then shut down

Provide a new CICS start option that would start CICS, connect with all related resource managers (IMS, DB2, MQ, etc.), complete all recovery, and then shutdown without allowing work to start flowing into that CICS. The current CICS startup option...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Omegamon TEPS history navigation by recording interval

From the Omegamon TEPS we need the ability to quickly and easily navigate backward and forward in time by the recording interval. The existing calendar functionality is cumbersome to use and slow to respond. Ideally, we would like a "calendar back...
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

Enhancements on CA7 functions

CA7 Job Triggering Flow gives a complete flow of a selected job. However, that's too much results returned. The CA7 jobs I provided it's for a small AD project and we have many projects that are larger. It's very hard to find a selected job on the...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Integration with CDP in a configuration with a standby controller

We use a standby controller and we want to use the CDP whit it running but now is not supported. This is why we request to integrate CDP with standby controllers
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Make INGVARS values accessible from Automation Table

Similar to ATF('DSICGLOB varname'), having System Automation shared variables would be valuable when working with message automation.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Sharing one Java Shared Classcache between different users and its restrictions

We plan to use the Java Shared Classcache for our Java Batch Jobs to improve CPU usage and performance of our batch jobs. The batch jobs use for security reasons different users but should share one classcache. Sharing the same Shared Class Cache ...
11 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Set return codes for INGRCRDX when editing

The ISPF EDIT service provides return codes which provide guidance as to whether a data was saved or not: Return codes 0 Normal completion; data was saved. 4 Normal completion; data was not saved for one of these reasons. • No data changes were ma...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

SemiColon not supported by RACF. Netview should translate.

Netview translates several characters (., *, %, &, - and ' '(blank)) prior to making a SAF call because these characters are not supported by RACF. Semicolon is also one that is not supported by RACF (TS006663687). Development should consider ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Adopt Dataname Picture and Usage in Mainframe COBOL

It would be extremely useful, and would help to prevent logic errors, if the COBOL compiler would allow a dataname to adopt the PICTURE and USAGE from another dataname at compile time. At execution time, logic errors (and even abends) can occur in...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

Add CPSMOBJ resource to SMF 1154 subtype 80 records

Hi Team,Request is to add CPSMOBJ to SMF 1154 subtype 80 records.Adding CPSMOBJ will help us to monitor if any exposure to CPSM objects or CICS resources through CMAS.
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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