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Populate ICOW owner ID with C-O-W program exception address

Currently there is no tool to identify the exact location of a Copy on Write exception only the program name.This suggestion involves a three line update in CPSE to add the COW exception program old PSW address as the low order owner ID of the XMB...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

IBM z/OS Debugger - How to know which register is allocated to variable

Customer is using Assembler language.To debug this Assembler, they are using "IBM z/OS Debugger" under 3270 interface. As a nature of Assembler, variable is often allocated to a certain Register.Hence, while turning on Monitoring the variable, cus...
almost 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

TWS not status update before Tracker start

【Environment】z/OS 2.1 TWS 9.25Host SYSPLEXJES-MASEvent detection using JES-EXITController runs on one host 【Events】During host maintenance, only the maintenance target host is stopped, and operation is continued in a degraded state.When starting a...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - use value of compilation variable in text manipulation with COPY / REPLACE directives

The COPY and REPLACE compiler-directing statements should accept the value of a compilation variable in text replacement operations. This would allow the values of compilation variables to be used in the text of the program source code:- to name v...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Alow Editing/Viewing of Customized Data Stream Definitions for CDPz

There is no interface to View/Edit Customized Data Stream Definitions after creating them which is ridiculous. I would have to start from scratach to correct or update user Customized definitions. Why provide an interface to allow for customized d...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Sync TPF File System tables in loosely coupled systems

We cleaned up the tpf file system in one of our sabre systems and noticed other processors didn't reflect the update with a ZFILE df -aic entry. I submitted a case (TS003005946) with the following response: The numbers for these values sync up ove...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Include elapsed upload time in cloud dataset display

During file upload CTC calculates the current upload rate and elapsed upload time, both values are visible in the active tasks display. Once the upload completes the entry no longer exists under active tasks, but it is available in the cloud datas...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

show columns dssgroup in zos explorer ctg plugin on cics connection view

possibility to show a columns dssgroup in zos explorer ctg plugin on cics connection view
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 4 Future consideration

JWT Client Token Coded CTG.INI

JWTclient Token coded into CTG.INI file, It is not a good solution from separation of duty and Security Audit Perspective. JWT Token and the CTG general parameters should coded in different file and controlled by different teams.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Support all of the MQ Called Routines

MQ provides called routines for the Batch, CICS, and IMS environments that AD does not support. Table of MQ provided called routines are found at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKSJ_8.0.0/com.ibm.mq.dev.doc/q028780_.htm
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration