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More GRPLIST parameters for CICS-TS 5.3 or higher / four is not sufficient

More GRPLIST parameters for CICS-TS 5.3 or higher / four is not sufficient.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

Syntax Checker should support all members of the IMS PROCLIB

Syntax Checker should support all members of the IMS PROCLIB, and be able to guess the member type based on the member name.
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

CICS Bundles have limited obvious scope for documentation

When creating CICS Bundle in CICS Explorer there initially appears to be very limited scope to include any description or documentation within the bundle itself. A CICS Application Bundle has a description field of up to 255 characters which is no...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Debugger in RDz - PL1 handles, types (PMR 18464,010,678 )

Debug Tool in RDz(Rational Developer for system Z V9.1) is owned by IBM, hence we have to make a Request for enhancement to them to get this to work. My experience is that this can take a while before the fix this. We can use memory maps in then d...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Modify EXEC CICS ENABLE to permit specifying conditions for when the exit program is to be driven

Could EXEC CICS ENABLE command be modified to specify a condition for when an exit program could be driven. Conditional execution could be based on CICS resources such as task number, transaction name or program name for example. Maybe we could ha...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enable zTPF to run without tapes

Allow TPF to run if no tape drives are available. If no tape drives are operational all the operator has to do is enter a command to disable tape operations which forces tpf to purge all tape queues and throw away all tape writes but allow the sys...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Cross-configuration, cross-sysplex reporting

The various reporting functions, especially those that generate comparison reports, should have the ability to create reports that span configurations, servers, and even sysplexes. For example it should be possible to generate a comparison report ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add dataset type with the BKUPINFO report.

Add dataset type beside the dataset within the BKUPINFO report. EX:: SEARCH CRITERIA: DATASET => ** DATE FROM => *-1 DATE TO => * TYPE => ACDFGHIMNORSTUVWZ 1PAGE 1 CBTI - DATASET LIST DATASET NAME EVENT DATE TIME TYPE ------...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Generate 88-Levels for nillable fields

DFHWS2LS generates for each field with the attribute nillable=true two fields in the corresponding copybook. One for the content of the element and one for a flag, which indicates the existence of any content. The program using the copybook then h...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhancements of Job Flow Diagram

Enhancements requests for the Job Flow Diagram, in order to align with the Program Flow Diagram: 1- When double_clik on an element of the diagram, the jcl should be automatically displayed in the Edit window with the cursor right on the selected s...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

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