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RDZ needs to support panels and groups for use with SDF2

Uploading RDz changes into SDF II. Want CICS screen changes made in RDz able to be loaded into SDF II libraries to keep code consistent. This will allow users to make CICS screen coding changes in SDF II and RDZ. This means RDz needs to support pa...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Provide sample members for user command exits to execute parallel to existing command exits.

I have found during testing of command exits that offloading some of the work to a local autotask executing a local exec greatly improves customer/operator experience. To closely relate the IBM default exit with the local exec executing in paralle...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA and ODM Metrics within CICS

Within CICS Performance Analyzer is the capability to view the components that make up the response time of a transaction. As an example, I can determine how much time was spent in DB2, in MQ and other subsystems that CICS uses to complete a unit ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Better control of redefinitions of entities in project hierarchy

In our organisation, we want to forbid the redefinition of an entity in the hierarchy of projects (entities of same name in the same tree of projects). This was a key feature of Pacbase to allow the administrator to forbid such redefinitions. To d...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Agricultural Bank of China has a new requirement of service class re-classification.

System: CICS TSActor: User needing new feature of service class re-classification. Description :MRO connection is set up between TOR and AOR. There is a long running task in TOR receiving request from front end. When the long running task receives...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

make the MNFREQ parameter available for threadsafe environnement

We have application long running transactions executing on L8 TCB We noticed that MNFREQ parameter doesn't work for these kind of transactions So we would like not to wait the end of the CICS session to have a performance records written for these...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CPSM Workload algorithm enhancement

Customers need IBM to develop an enhancement to the present CPSM Algorithm in order to save MLC (monthly license charge). The current CPSM solution provides workload balancing which dynamically routes transactions among a set of target regions (AO...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Type 4 DB2 driver compatability in CICS OSGI JVM server

Support Type 4 DB2 drivers from OSGI JVM's also address the integrity issues, commit and roll back
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Data access layer(Both File and DB2)

Data access layer (Both File and DB2) needs to be supported.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Asktime should set a properly formatted COMP-3 in EIBTIME

Copied from the following APAR: (sorry for the all caps)APAR= PN08959 SER= PIN=566540301-817 IN INCORROUT EIBTIME FIELD HAS INCORRECT SIGN AFTER ASKTIME. STAT= CLOSED DOC FESN6540301- CTID= HU0414 ISEV= 4 SB91/10/23 RC91/10/24 CL91/11/18 PD91/11/2...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration