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CICS Terminal Detail return all rows

The CICS Plex CICS TERMINAL DETAIL agent does not return all rows. It was designed to access the WHERE TERMID = on the query and returrn only that row. We need to return ALL ROWS. We openned case TS009532669 and lab reccomended to change this woul...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 3 Delivered

Add CHANGE in FCH and DSED support for zEDC compressed datasets.

Our project recently applied zEDC compress for most of the datasets we use. After the change, jobs that use FileManager's CHANGE command in the FCH function and DSED abend.
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Option to send message DFHMP* to syslog/consoles when policies are triggered

Currently, messages DFHMP* issued when a policy is triggered are sent to CSSL via CMPO TD. To send them to syslog/consoles, we need to use XMEOUT exit. It should be interesting to have an option in rules part of policies to send them to syslog/con...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

Timeout HA IPIC connection to CICS

Current IPIC connections to CICS cannot be timed out. In case of outage of a z/OS Connect instance on the same LPAR, the load can only be processed by z/OS Connect and CICS (IPIC connections) on the other LPAR. We want to remove LPAR-specific depe...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

CJSA attached after CICS shutdown initiated

The Liberty Server in CICS still accepts incoming requests after the CICS shutdown has been initiated (indicated by message DFHTM1715) because the JVM has not closed the port immediately. But the CJSA transaction cannot be attached as it is define...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Simplified JSON structures when generating bottom-up services from CICS channel applications

The JSON Request and Response structures created for a CICS Channel Service contain nesting levels that complicate the API interface and appear to have little use.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

ability to map multiple response messages with API Requesters

With API Requesters, we need to ability to map multiple API response messages for a given API , with the zconbt tooling, and have the appropriate transform done based upon the http response code. Implicit in this request is the need for transforma...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Delivered

DBCS support with SDF

SDF function is important user interface of Z SA.However important messages sent to the focal are garbled only after the session disconnects between the target and the focal.DBCS messages should be displayed correctly when sending after reconnection.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Delivered

New BIF: MEMUVALID()

We work more and more with UTF-8. To verify a longer Unicode String to be valid, we are very over the limits of the length of a variable. So we will need a BuiltInFunction like UVALID() but with Pointer and Length like the other MEM-Functions ->...
about 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Ability to configure number of lines within a JCL being submitted through zOS Explorer

A very large JCL being submitted through zOS Explorers JMON interface, are using a large part of the ECSA for inter task communication between the RSED and JMON tasks.Ultimately leaving limited ECSA available for other system communications.It sho...
11 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

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