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Reduce CPU usage of writing x'99' logs by zIIP offload

We are planning to use IIDR for IMS for next disaster recovery system. We need to change DBD definitions of source IMS system to write x'99' logs for replication. We conducted performance test on the source IMS system with x'99' logs and CPU cost ...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Introduce TCP/IP Ping capability into CICS API

If a task running in CICS attempts to connect to a server over TCP/IP, for example using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN, this will fail quickly if the target system is reachable but there is no listener on the target port or any handshake fails. However, if t...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Do not require password if client certificate provided for PCOMM-FTP

When a client certificate is used (like a PIV/CAC card) for identification to the FTP server then the client should not request a userid or password. The SSL/TLS session is done prior to the credentials and the server could determine the ID to ass...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

OTMA Front-End Switch

Our IMS client has following business requirement : DataPower ==> ICON8 ==> IMS A ==> ICON3 ==> IMS B ==> ICON3 ==> IMS A ==> ICON8 ==> DataPower We need the IMS front-end switch function so that the send-receive call from ...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

System Events for DSA/EDSA storage threshold

Provide a mechanism similar to the task threshold in system events, so that when the storage allocation exceeds a predefined threshold (in percentage), an event would be emitted.Checking the storage usage percentage could be done when a new extent...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

An option not to reset counts on USS stats records

In some of our regions we use DADS to open/close files in our regions. This can happen several times a day. Each time a file is closed a USS record is written to SMF and the count is reset to 0. Therefore, we have loads of USS records for files an...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Customization of warning or error messages from different plugin tools

If any branch is deleted or access issue and ,we try to do Git pull on that branch in IDz using Egit ,It use to through the error 'problem occured' and after expanding the error it is giving the error message . Pulling 1 repository Remote origin ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Add MFA support to z/OS FTP Perspective

The z/OS Explorer's z/OS perspective for FTP connections should be enhanced to support MFA authentication. Currently, it only supports userID + password authentication.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 1 Not under consideration

COMMIT does not free up the locks owned by all DB2 threads

We have a program with VSAM files migrated to DB2 via CICS VSAM Transparency. These files are read & updated each with their own unique DIM per file. The mainline program is calling a new dynamic subroutine which handles all of the commits by ...
almost 9 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow custom DFHAPPL length

DFHAPPL is a unique EMP in that it survives a DELIVER, which is important to us because we use DBCTL and some DBCTL functions invoke a DELIVER EMP (I assume to allow separate stats per PSB). We would like to use DFHAPPL because of this ability but...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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