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Provide additoinal commands for Purge

How we can control the COMMITS in the PURGE statement of the DRLPLC utility. We need to set a low commit so we do not get logs filling up and eliminate “DSNI031I -DBP2 DSNILKES - LOCK ESCALATION HAS OCCURRED FOR” issues.? Need additional parameter...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

zIIP Enable VSAM/RLS processing

Similar to DRDA work coming into DB2, request to see a percentage of the CPU used to process VSAM/RLS requests from CICS enabled for zIIP offload eligibility.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Capture the architecture of mainframe applications using REST API methods

We have an Architecture Repository to support architecture work related to the business applications. In order to get this Architecture Repository fully functioning that system must be fed with with the data that comes from the systems. Therefore ...
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

/DISPLAY BALGRP shows decreasing value once BALGDEQD goes over x'80000000'.

The RFE was submitted by IMS L2 support on behalf of KYNDRYL NORWAY A S/DISPLAY BALGRP shows confusing values once the ENQ/DEQ numbers reach 999999999.There is a full word counter(BALGDEQD) in the BALG control block. It is incremented for every me...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Properly resolve a user's TSO prefix

For the odd shops like ours where a TSO prefix is not the user's ID, this can cause a lot of ZOAU commands/python invocations to fail. ZOAU tries to allocate temporary work datasets under the user's "prefix", but it seems to just grab the user's I...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

Bring SQL-Compiler-Suboptions into LoadModule, especially ATTACH(TSO/CAF/ULI)

We try to find out whit compiler options are used for some programs on load library. When using the FM-LoadModule-Analyzer, we can list the compiler options of the load modules. If the program uses SQL, we see "SQL" as COBOL-option, but not the us...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Validate zUnit playbackfile in DTR runtime

When pushing a zUnit testcase in a pipeline (and maybe other places) the playbackfile isn't validating with possible result a testcase is run forever (or until canceled). The functionality to validate the playback file is present in ZVTP and would...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

INGALERT should default to use MVSESA if the jobname is not known to System Automation

If INGALERT code is called from the Message Automation Table, if not specified, the jobname is taken from the message's job name field. If the jobname is not known to System Automation, no alert is generated and the following message is issued: IN...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

J2C Protocol support on zAPM Connect

The WAS Socket communication links, based on the J2C protocol does not support header injection (tagging) to allow correlation of transactions and visualization of zOS components on the AppDynamics Controller GUI.Approximately 50% of our organizat...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Program name in PUT DATA / PUT LISTwithin CICS runtime

When running PL/I programs under CICS it is sometimes necessary to activate PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs to analyse problems within applications.The output of PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs is prefixed by Terminalid, Transactionid and timestamp. The program nam...
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration