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Ability to manually disable protective mechanisms like QHA

This is to request manual ability to disable various protective mechanisms in GDPS, for example automatic QHA on GDPS/PPRC resynch/failback. We recently had an issue PMH 13736 BR 122 where pathgroups were left online to an LPAR that was already do...
over 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Externalize the DFSDFxxx PROCLIB values at IMS initialization

Externalize the DFSDFxxx PROCLIB values at IMS initialization. Currently the FastPath section of DFSDFxxx member is externalized when IMS starts, but we would like the ability to view the remainder of the parameters, to identify what was used at I...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Identify or Track source code changes reference by ADI BRD pointers

Need a way to know that the under lying code referenced by Business terms/rules was modified. Currently the pointers might point to erroneous lines if code was modified. We would like someway to identify what original lines were if different then ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 1 Not under consideration

CPSM Tasks - Open TCB

I would like the CPSM services run out of QR TCB. This enhancement will provide parallelism and will reduce CPU Usage and QR ratio would be higher.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Stop all IMS ODBM PST related work if the associated IMS Connect DRDA JDBC Socket goes away

There are several situations, when the IMS Connect DRDA socket goes away, but the ODBM thread/PST continues its work or hangs. Examples are, PST in Lock Wait in PI systems. DL/I call resulting in a database scan or other long running work, that wa...
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 2 Not under consideration

Automatically populate a Proejct in Build Client

Provide a feature that would automatically open each member of a PDS-like dataset or workstation folder and determine what language that member is, then automatically move it to the correct folder in the Project.Objects where a language type canno...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

IDz - PDS Member stats need to be created when not present

Currently we do not have a setting in LPEX corresponding to ISPF STATS. In ISPF, stats are creted based on the setting STATS = ON or OFF, and LPEX creates stats only if the dataset already has stats.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Basic authentication for CICS as a web service requester

For CICS as a web service requester with basic authentication defined in URIMAP, we developed a Global exit to activate at exit point XWBAUTH and supply the userID and password through a sequential file set-up and accessible by security team.Since...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS web service requester PIPELINE

CICS Web service requester pipeline does not permit writting into HTTP header. We use SOAPACTION container and set it up in a handler program to insert additional HTTP headers but there should be easier ways like using API WEB WRITE HTTPHEADER to ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Propose an LTS Release for IMS

I would like to have the possibility to chose a long time support release for IMS (like MQ product). Today, one version is a 2 years version. It is often too short for a production environment. We spend too much time to migrate the software to a n...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

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