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Display transaction code in /DIS TMEMBER xxx TPIPE yyy

Display transaction code in /DIS TMEMBER xxx TPIPE yyy. The transaction code would be the last transaction that used that TPIPE.
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Not under consideration

Increased Functionality in the Transform on Response Mappings

Currently the multiple response code transform seems to happen after the IMS response message is placed in given response layout. I would like to request an option to have the transform happen before the IMS response message layout. For Example:If...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Debugger should provide CICS WUI definitions for the debugger resources

there might be other customers who use WUI 's - they can not use the CSD's we provide at this time
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

CSNC restrict IRC Connect Retry count to 50

CICS/TS MRO current design has no limit to the number of IRC retry CONNECT requests issued by transaction CSNC. This has led to High CPU consumption by hundreds of CICS Regions trying to connect to a stalled CICS Region. It does not seem logical t...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

nothing to say

don't see any thing useful
almost 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Not under consideration

Dex supports MFA

We are using smartcard when we log in to our accounts in Windows, DEX does not support this. We need ADDI to support MFA since we have strong requirement for the use of this at our company.
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

INQUIRE DFHTRANSACTION Threadsafe,

We are trying to cut back on TCB Swaps; I notice INQUIRE DFHTRANSACTION to do TCB swap; was wondering if this could be made THREADSAFE? There is a trace entry of TRANSFORMER; not sure what that is.... See trace snippit: L80AT RM 0302 RMLN EXIT SET...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

make INQUIRE REQID Threadsafe

We are interested in making INQ REQID Threadsafe. We are trying to cut back on some TCB swaps; I noticed this in the trace; TCB Swap upon entry exit of INQ REQID; Entry L8; Exit QR; then remains on QR for some time, until next DB2 or MQ request. 9...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

special non-IBM Enterprise COBOL statement

Compile of program was successful but using RDZ it got parsing errors
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

Improve Sysplex Distributer / DVIPA routing for CICSplex

Today, a TCP/IP connection request comes to a specific DVIPA definition in TCP/IP and is essentially routed “round robin” across eligible LPARs and CICS regions. We want CPSM to influence which CICS region / LPAR is assigned to new DVIPA connectio...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration