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Add details of the number of times a transaction has been purged due to tranclass limits

In relation to RFE 133818. Add count to transaction statistics which represents the number of times a transaction has been purged due to tranclass limits.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Make CICS Transaction CSGM CAT 3

CICS currently has three category 3 transactions CESN, CESL and CESF which are security exempt as they are supplied transactions that should be available to all users. CESN and CESL are CICS supplied signon transactions and are often used as Good ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

more than one Liberty server per CICS region - using authorized services via Angel

We would like to use a several number of liberty servers inside of CICS and use the authorized services via the angel process. Example:It should be possible to run three liberty server in one CICS region, so we can run three different and separate...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

CLSS RFE - Multisession vs. Preserve Session

• Customer needs to have the ability to log into multiple sessions, while maintaining the Preserve session for each tab opened.• While opening multiple instances of CLSS user needs to be able to maintain their connections on each system.
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

File Manger editor to enable block selection like LPEX or CNTL+ALT+A in other editors

as Title... File Manger to enable block selection like LPEX or CNTL+ALT+A in other editors
almost 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Support for Extended Address Volume (EAV) on z/OS

Currently RDz does not support Extended Address Volume (EAV) on z/OS. This is a major inhibitor to the adoption of RDz in z/OS host application development, since host data sets on EAV cannot be accessed via RDz.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Enhancement to allow Control-flow to work for when there is no space between subscript

We have a lot of code in Production where there is no space after the comma in statements using subscripts. The code is in copybooks as well as programs, Cobol compiled gives a warning but successfully creates the load module. However Program Cont...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

CICS TRANSACTION GATEWAY for z/OS support of Microsoft Net.Core

We would like to ask in which version of CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS is IBM planning to support a stable DLL for Microsoft NET.Core ?Is it available in versions 9.1 or 9.1 ?If it is not available yet but IBM is in the progress of migrating ....
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

ODBM IMS JDBC retrieve full IMS DB record without field definitions in DBD

In the customer DBD there is only the key field defined for the segments. When using the DL/I path interface, ODBM for performance reasons only returns the data for defined fields, not for the complete IMS DB record.The customer requests an enhanc...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 3 Delivered

Sync Cognos and IzPCA Installed Components

Reports for uninstalled components should not be visible on Cognos
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Delivered