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IMS SINGLE TCB per TMEMBER BOTTLENECK

The current IMS design has a single TCB per TMEMBER, resulting in bottlenecks once transaction volume approaches the critical limit (which is unknown at this time). While IMS performance testing has shown IMS can handle 100K trxs per second, the b...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way to reset the RM Program Resource from other than the owning IMS

We need to reset the RM Program Resource by command, from other IMS than the owning IMS, to release a program that is held by a failed IMS.
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

zDT and z/OS maintenance

We would like to apply maintenance to our zDT environments without SMP administration work. We would like to apply PTFs in a more Agile way: easier, faster and without SMP overhead.
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V4/V6 - Support LARGE or EXTENDED format for SYSUTn

When the compiler work files are declared as LARGE or EXTENDED format, explicitly by JCL (DSNTYPE=LARGE), or implicitly by an SMS dataclass, the compiler triggers an S213-14 abend. The compiler should support LARGE and EXTENDED type format on the ...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Support for PseudoRBA IAM files

We have a client that is requesting support for PseudoRBA IAM files. They use PseudoRBA for claim history files which can be quite large. File Manager did not copy their history files and maintain PseudoRBA, but they did not get a copy error eithe...
almost 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Inquire Details of Autoinstallmodel terminals or Typeterm

With 'CEMT i AUTI' you can see a list of Autoinstallterminalmodels or Typterms, but you cannot look to further details as other resources like files oder terminals. If you type on the line a command like ? or Enter, you don't see any further Detai...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Hourglass Duplicate Batch Job control records

Hourglass permits duplicate Batch job name control records (with different Date/Time changes) , which introduces the problem that a Job will be intercepted by Hourglass with an incorrect Date
almost 6 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Offer CBL option for Binder control statment

In some situation, it may be necessary to manage specific options when running the Binder. These options can be the consequence of choice at the level of the Cobol program: by example using the EXCI interface that require to include a specific mod...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

init for alias

If you define an alias you may want some default init values for that type.If you would can add the init attribute to the type definition and use the value(::) keyword on the allocation, similar to define structure, you can use specific init value...
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

COBOL V5+ Recursion Protection for File Declaratives

If an abnormal file condition is "protected" by a COBOL declarative routine and this routine closes the file the file status becomes 00 and another write attempt by the application will fail again driving the declarative again, thus creating a loop.
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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