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Improved channel usage with RUN TRANSID

We would like improved channel/storage management when using the RUN TRANSID function, to reduce the complexity of solutions using RUN TRANSID, and remove the chance of storage leaks in long running tasks.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer - WLM MAP Function

We want to have a modern representation of the WUI MAP function adapted to CICS Explorer.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Allow RDO definitions to refer to User Globals - in a dfhconfig/UserGlobal directory

Add a feature to allow User Globals Variables to be defined. At the moment there seems to be a small list of CICS-provided variables (&USERID, &APPLID, &SYSID, &JNAME, etc) for use with a subset(?) of RDO definitions. My suggestion...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

RSA multi-factor authentication support

RSA multi-factor authentication support for CICS Explorer CMCI connection and z/OS FTP connection.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 9 Delivered

JDBC access to dynamic arrays in IMS database segments

In several IMS databases dynamic array structures were used instead of having a bunch of very small dependend segments. Actually IMS Catalog supports the definition of fix arrays and dynamic arrays where the amount of array instances depends on a ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 3 Delivered

Warning Message when a commarea is bigger than 32kb

When compiling, IGYCRCTL module doesn't warns about links with commarea greater than 32 kb. It will be helpful if IGYCRCTL generates a warning when maximum size of a commarea is exceeded.
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

System Policy Rule for TSQueue Capacity

System Policy Rule to detect when TSQ AUX/Pool/Main is nearing threshold limits.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Externalize the QRCPUT/QRDISPT ratio in a message and allow customization of threshold and how frequent the message comes out

There are a number of instances where problems are reported that turn out to be due to CPU starvation. Getting to that point though is a lengthy process, diagnosing the symptom, then having customer go back to their local performance group to revi...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

z/TPF business event APIs to query status and info about active events and dispatch adapters

1. Provide zEV API returning the zEV Names of all Deployed and Active z/TPF zEVents 2. A customer written z/TPF program will call the API every "n" minutes to get a list of all deployed and active z/TPF Business Eventing Facility (zEV) Named Event...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Preserve mappings when replacing a service in API method

It would be immensely useful if you could preserve the mappings when we replace a service by a service with a different name in a API methods. A little bit like you do when we import a more recent service (.sar file) with the same name in an API p...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

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