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JMON: extra informations needed

In RDz, "Remote System Details" some extra informations available in SDSF DA should be added be added: . STEPNAME : to see what the job is currently doing . IO : a counter for I/O done at an instant t . CPU-TUME : to figure out what the actuel CPU...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

CICS DB2 query Interface (like DSNC) but SPI

Provide CICS SPI to list DB2 tasks threads from CICS, like DSNC transaction. to display thread / task information via program. DSNC transaction is 3270 only and would need to have program coding for a 3270 bridge type of processing; would prefer S...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 12 Delivered

Job Confirmation Locate Job, Notify - Store in settings

Hi, Whenever I start a job via "submit to ...", a dialog appears where I can select "Locate Job", "Notify" or "OK". Most developers usually have a preference for one of these variants. But you always have to select one of them at job start. If you...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 4 Delivered

API extensibility for Assembler Macros

We are using macros to call other programs.These macros are not recognized by Application Discovery. We need a possibiliy to map these macros to for example a call. We also need this functionality for macros doing a database access, leading to a c...

Add IMS reason code to CICS message DFHDB8111

Add the IMS reason code to CICS Message DFHDB8111
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Enterprise COBOL V6R4 - IGZPROUT - Add "SERVICE" information in report

Hi, IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4 allows you to produce a report of all subroutines called by dynamic call. We would like the information introduced by the SERVICE compilation option to be included in the IGZPROUT report. This would meet one of our...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

Shared TSQs in CICS Explorer

Displaying of Shared TS Queues is not possible in CICS Explorer. Please make this feature available.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

Persist connections between IMS and z/OS Connect EE in API requester scenario

Allow to persist connections between the IMS MPR and z/OS Connect EE for better performance and avoid doing too many SSL handshakes (if the connection is using HTTPS).
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Generate DCLGEN for table "Views"

Please add the function to produce DCLGEN for a DB2 table View.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

HOD FTP needs to support Chinese characters

FTP is widely used in Citi for transferring files and some of our users are unable to send files via HOD FTP because it does not currently support Chinese characters . This support is needed for these business to transfer their datasets.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Delivered