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Option to only display the active sessions within Supersession

We have recently migrated from TPX to Supersession. When a user logs onto TPX they get a complete list of sessions, exactly as in Supersession. However it is possible for a user to override the display of sessions by entering a temporary override...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Key Mapping augmentation

Please consider allowing for mapping of PF13 - PF24 in the RCE. Today, only PF1-PF12 are able to be mapped.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Delivered

Start/stop debug region in multiple LPARs with the use of preferences

For debug IMS isolation Ability to start/stop two different private IMS regions in parallell LPARs using different job cards for each job that is started. When starting one region from configuration option Remote IMS application with Isolation, a ...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Allow enable/disable of transactions starting with C

Allow CEMT and SPI functions to enable or disable user transactions starting with "C".
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

IBM Debug should honor the Special-Names Decimal-Point setting in COBOL

At the moment the Eclipse Debug views "Variables" and "Monitors" only display fractional values (like s9v99) with a decimal-point (e.g. "3.14") In most countries of Europe including Germany the common decimal-sign is a comma (e.g. "3,14") so the p...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

One-Click deployment of API & SAR

We request One-Click deployment for both APIs & SARS from the API Toolkit to z/OS Connect. Currently, we need to use FTP to transfer our APIs to the Mainframe. With developers reiteratively making changes to their APIs, this one-click enhancem...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Lack of options in START CHANNEL

Under CICS TS 5.4 - and up to 5.6 there is no support for the PROTECT / NOCHECK options with START commands issued with CHANNELs. This imposes a significant limitation where CHANNEL's are in effect the strategic comms pattern for CICS program inte...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Support Null configuration as a supported feature for Region Switch

For clients managing multiple GDPS sessions within a single Kg/Kr system pair, provide the ability to load a null config (via XML) for region switch purposes. This capability does exist but according to IBM is not supported. This would allow custo...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

Multi-Thread ZPOOL INIT Entries

Currently the ZPOOL INIT functions are single threaded, and there is a real need for these functions to be mult-threaded. The multi-threaded logic currently runs in seconds(production) and minutes in Native and VPARS. The current IBM logic runs fo...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add storage statistics field for available 64-bit extents LWM

A new statistics field should be created that will be similar to this calculation outlined in the CICS v5.5 Knowledge Center (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.5.0/reference/statistics/dfht3_stats_stgmgr_0stat_above2GB.html)-...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

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