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TCSACTN=FORCE terminates hung LU6.2 VTAM connections even if CNOS close processing has not completed

As it stands right now during a shutdown hang, TCSACTN=FORCE will not close down LU6.2 parallel connections until after CNOS close processing has completed. Once a region begins to shutdown and gets to the process of terminating of VTAM sessions, ...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

TM RA support for SEND_ONLY with ACK

In the SEND_ONLY scenario without ACK, IMS input messages are lost when the IMS transaction is stopped. There is no notification (SEND_ONLY without ACK). Unlike IMS Connect API, IMS TM Resource Adapter does not support the SEND_ONLY protocol with ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Syncron processing of user-defined Workstations (EQQUX0099

User-defined workstations are currently processed asynchronously. The workstation analyzer identifies the operation to be submitted and performs these actions: 1.queues, asynchronously, a submit request to the Data Router task 2.updates the curren...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Have the ability in Configuration Manager to build the work (WK) datasets ahead of time

Currently Configuration Manager only creates the new STC procs, VTAMLST members, DB2 bind JCL, etc. during the GENERATE step. In larger environments, often different people/groups need to perform different tasks, example the network person/group d...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

CICS TG Inbound adapter: provide support for WebSphere Network Deployment (WAS ND)

Hello, In the CTG documentation it is cleared stated that: "The CICS TG Inbound adapter does not provide support for WebSphere Network Deployment (WAS ND)" Unfortunately we only install WAS ND (and no WAS base) on our servers and plan to use CICS ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Widescreen for BIDI characters

The option - Optimize for Widescreen is available Only for SBCS codepage display sessions not for DBCS or BIDI. Our users have been requesting such an option for many years and we finally thought that with version 15 we would have the option to gi...
5 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Future consideration

CL/Supersession needs to support TLS

When PAGENT is enabled CL/Supersession does not support TLS
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Allow SCOPE=SYSTEM on sysplex wide ENQ

Allow the application to control whether a SYSPLEX ENQ call is SCOPE=SYSTEM vs SCOPE=SYSTEMS. This could be on the API call itself, or more likely on the ENQMODEL definition.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Provide a way to identify source lines discarded by conditional compilation

We have made extensive use of conditional compilation to provide a COBOL development framework. If the development framework is easy to use, the result is a compilation listing filled with lines of source code commented out by conditional compilat...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

Dynamic Workload Console on Z : Make the report path (dwc_workarea) configurable

We'd like to have the report path (dwc_workarea) variable configurable to avoid ICH408I message at the start of the STC (insufficient authority to create /reports directory)The report path is actually a fix path set to /reports. Our site configura...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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