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Provide an XPI to inquire on Feature Toggles

Raised at the CICS BP Conference and 1-1 with Colin Penfold. Please provide a way to inquiring on feature toggle settings
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Selection Criteria for Transaction Resource record

When I try to fix the AFCY abend (deadlock abend)，I have to figure out which file was locked when the deadlock happened and which task locked the file.Usually the task's response time must be long.It's a critical value that I can use to filter the...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

zUnit to be able to handle pointers in the linkage variables

Our cobol programs are utilizing pointer variables in the linkages. Using zUnit Test Case Input wizard, the copybooks referenced by the pointers are not seen resulting to not being able to provide input data to a test scenario. PMR 46883,122,000 i...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

IMS Explorer does not accept more than an 8 character password and does accept passphrases.

IMS Explorer does not accept more than an 8 character password and does accept passphrases. Our corporate requirement for security passwords is a 10 character passphrase. We are unable to use the product without the 10 character passphrase.RACF an...
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 33 Delivered

Lift restriction impose by the number of non system LX

Currently the maximum number of linkage index (LX) allowed for CICS is 2048. In our shop we have over 700+ CICS regions running in the same LPAR. Each CICS consumes 2-4 LX. This leaves no room for other batch job which has the need to use LX and c...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Missing UP message for CKMJMAIN.

CKMJMAIN does not have a message for System Automation or other product to identify that it has been completely initialized and has successfully connected to all hosts.
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 2 Delivered

Ergonomic character size

With the availibilty of the large displays like 24" and 27" with their high screen resolution PCOMM no longer provides the required ergonomic minimum character size. Changing the screen resolution does not solve problem, as any screen has only one...
about 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Delivered

Extend JCLExec API to specify the buildFile

Today, when submitting a JCL with an inline JCL, the DBB build report is showing an entry the build report with the file as "undefined". It would be great, if the API could be extended with a new (optional) method like `buildFile(String)` to set t...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

Start/stop debug region in multiple LPARs from one single LPAR

For debug isolation Start/stop two different private IMS regions in parallell IMS system from one LPAR Today we need to start both regions manually from each LPAR with different job names. We want to be able to do this from one LPAR by selecting t...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Service level transaction expiry support for IMS OTMA

We would like to give our API developers the capability to specify on OTMA timeout value and activate IMS OTMA transaction expiry. We would like the developer to be able to specify the timeout value and whether to activate transaction expiry or no...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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