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Provide monitoring data for current number of tasks in TRANCLASS at task attach

CICS provides the performance class monitoring CURTASKS field (id 434) in the DFHTASK group. This field records the number of tasks inside the system at the time of task attach, which is very helpful when understanding retrospectively how rapidly ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

APA support to summarize observation data over multiple addresspaces

Most customers do observations for multiple regions at once (since they do not know in what region applications will be schedules. To be able to diagnose problems, they need the observation values for the full application / middle ware regions. Th...
over 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Binary read - Reading MVS DS with x'00'

z Open Automation Utilities provide functions for processing data sets. One of these functions is datasets.read(). Unfortunately datasets.read() stops reading after a x'00' occurs in the input data set. This RFE seeks to eliminate this restriction.
about 3 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Delivered

Prevent CMAS termination with EYUXC0023S and EYUXC0024S if request for dataspace storage is from end-user query

When a user in the WUI or CICS Explorer issues a query, CPSM creates a result set within the CPSM Dataspaces for the CMAS where the user connected. If CPSM needs to expand a dataspace and is unable to do so due to storage constraints, the CMAS wil...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

TACMD on TEP

When MFA fix applied TACMD receives security error on TEP window server REFER to original CASE: TS004167238
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

IMS release level incorrect in INQY ENVIRON data output in IMS 15.2

In IMS 15.2, the INQY ENVIRON call still returns the IMS release level 15.1 (x'0000151F'). Therefore, can you provide the correct IMS release level to the INQY ENVIRON call please.
about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 3 Delivered

Requesting RDz v9.x to support Enterprise COBOL v5.1

Our application developers use Rational Developer for System z ("RDz") to generate Web Service programs for CICS. We are implementing the Enterprise COBOL v5.1 compiler in order to exploit the new and faster machine instructions on the zEnterprise...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 6 Delivered

More user roles & access control (2): customerized roles

customerized roles for more advanced mgmt
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

Clean up of OTMA orphaned YTIBS

A transaction started via a message switch under OTMA which replies to the IOPCB may still leave orphaned YTIB storage in IMS. This effectively causes a storage creep and requires an IMS recycle to fix.This request is that IMS should periodically ...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

CICS Web Services should support Unicode (UTF-16)

When using CICS web services, the default translation code page is UTF-8 from localccsid. This customer has user data in a DB2 sub-system stored in UTF-16. To process this data using CICS web services, they must read the DB2 tables and translate f...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

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