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Immediate Error Reply for not connected TPIPEs

Currently if a TPIPE is not connected/not in RESUME TPIPE status, IMS waits for the timeout and comes back with an error.In case WebSphere is shut down this leads to stalls in IMS and lots of error tickets/research.It would be better if IMS detect...
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Improve REGION's panel (KIPDEPS e3270UI) filters - PWFI

On panel KIPDEPS (e3270UI), please check if it's possible to include the capability to list only PWFI regions Thanks.
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Additional field (PWFI) for the REGION's panel - (KIPDEPS e3270UI)

On panel KIPDEPS (e3270UI), please check if it's possible to include the capability to show a column identifying which regions are PWFI=Y Thanks.
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Add new XREF sub-option or another new compiler option to get enhanced File Reference Information about the used source and include members

While working on the migration from Serena ChangeMan to BMC ISPW we came across that no tool other than the PL/I Compiler can correctly detect, which version of the source and include members have be used during the compilation. This data is impor...
over 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

ServiceNow integration for IZWS

Today we have our Mainframe and DWC installed next to it. We would like to create some automatic incidents on ServiceNow by using ‘’events’’ on DWC through API on the Mainframe.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Value-based item-supression for JSON GENERATE

We need an additional functionality for JSON GENERATE to suppress some items in the output document at runtime based on values of their source fields. This feature exists for XML GENERATE but not for JSON GENERATE.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Support Pack On dataset in IDz

Need support of "Pack On" dataset in RDz/IDz.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Metrics for requests arrival rates - MQ and HTTP

MQ and HTTP listeners need to provide metrics which inform users: 1. at what rate requests are being processed 2. whether they are arriving faster than they can be processed 3. if there is capacity to process more requests per second.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Adding filter to client certificate

In order to be able to accept calls only from authorized clients and not from all those who have a certificate generated by one of the CAs loaded in the ring used by the CTG, it would be useful to be able to configure a list of common name clients...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

Need tool that allows for manual merging of 3 files creating a new 4th file

As a developer, when there is source contention on a file, a tool is needed to help resolve that contention by generating a new file containing the differences manually selected by the developer. A tool is needed that will assist in resolving cont...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered