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Show more information in graphs (customizable)

Show more information in graphs through color-coding, line thickness, ...- Show program complexity scores in program box (red=complex, green=simple)- Show number of call-statements on connection (bold line = many different calls, light line = only...
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for REXX

Provide support for REXX
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Reuse of DB2 prepared statements in IMS JBP (and BMP) regions

Java applications running in an IMS JBP (or BMP) region are not able to reuse DB2 prepared statements after doing a checkpoint call by using the Transaction.checkpoint() or the Transaction.checkpoint(SaveArea) method. If you try to reuse them you ...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

ISF0413-1606 IDAA Support for IMS data

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: gregory.debo.bipd@statefarm.comSubmitters Company: State Farm PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: ISF0413-1606 IDAA Support for IMS dataHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Information ManagementCurrent Status:...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

CICS Event Processing adapter write to dataset

Provide a CICS Event Processing adapter to write to datasets.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Configuration Manager should use the CPSM infrastructure if available

Currently, using CM to perform "install" operations for configurations that are CSD based (as opposed to BAS based) requires defining connections to all possible target regions for the installation operations and also running the CM agent code in ...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

COBOL Z/OS support LRECL greater than 32767

Hi, Like for ZFS files i want that COBOL can support records greater than 32767. In USS environment i can create, read a record greater than 32767, in Z/OS VBS record format i can't.The LRECL=X is supported on JCL.
almost 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

A short running IMS region for IMS TM customers

A TM only user can start a short running IMS region to quickly resolve external subsystem infight and in doubt units of work
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Expedite the OTMA ACEE cleanup

Some IMS customers have many cached OTMA ACEEs for RACF userids. Searching through hash synonym chains for OTMA ACEEs is using much CPU. The number of hash chains should be increased from the current 509. Also – if the ACEEs were chained in ascend...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

CPSM REXX API to pass back COUNT values (DISPTIME) dispatches

Writing REXX program to query CPSM values; API repertoire looks complete, except for passing back Composite Field Count values, for example DISPTIME. DISPTIME is a composite field of STCK12 TIME and 4 byte COUNT. COUNT being the number of samples ...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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