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Enhancement Hourglass

We use HOURGLASS to update the date. HOURGLASS allow us only a specific date. We would like to have the ability to obtain a different date, Relative Date Plus ou Minus a number of days (for example, Day +7).We would like to do this thru AGGCX tran...
almost 8 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Issues with DLI Batch Backout and Checkpoints

Current Situation The situation is: IMS 12.1, batch jobs running in DLI mode, dynamic backout is not enabled, no IRLM, no RSR tracking, DBRC is Force, databases are registered to DBRC, application program takes checkpoints. Our normal procedure is...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 3 Not under consideration

In CICS: Allow products, like CICS VT, to be driven at end of task processing and before the syncpoint.

CICS VT intercepts CICS File Control requests in the File Contol GLUEs and converts them to DB2 requests. These are leaving the DB2 cursors OPEN.When the task reaches end of task syncpoint, Recovery Manager calls DB2 to PREPARE and COMMIT before t...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Request for new IMS ODBM Query Timeout to stop long-running ODBM Queries from further processing

With our increased usage of IMS ODBM, we have the need for an additional IMS ODBM Query Timeout to stop long-running ODBM Queries from further processing. We would like to be able to specify the Query timeout in both Wall clock time and CPU time.
almost 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Require to expose the CARMA Endevor API

We want the API allow self developed Eclipse plugin to call the existing CARMA Endevor interface.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

XML Parse with COBOL and XML System Service - better design to avoid truncated XML element content

Current situation:------------------Extra COBOL program logic for every XML element content is necessary to check for split content and to concatenate pieces of content for this case. Enterprise COBOL V5 is running with z/OS XML System Service to ...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Request IBM to add EXPRTIME= for IMS Fast Path transactions

When Fast Path transactions are not processing quickly enough they can back up in IMS, increasing the storage utilized to contain control blocks associated with them. If an IMS expiration value is set, transactions that aren't processed before tha...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 0 Not under consideration

Better validation of License server names

If you by accident type in a invalid host name for the License server in the zD&T EE Admini interface, you do not get an error, but at the instance deployment time you get a strange error that the target cannot communicate with the ZD&T EE...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

recovery for files edited with carma quick edit

when editing in RDZ 9.5.1 or earlier a member from CARMA, there is no recovery for the file.and no history .
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Debugging with MFI in a CICS PLEX environment

When debugging from 3270 interface (MFI) and setting a transaction for debug, you must first determine in which region the transaction will be run. This does not work well with the CICS solution for high availability where the transaction is being...
almost 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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