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Make the z / OS Health Checker Customizable via an Administrator transaction and SIT – overwrites

Make the z / OS Health Checker Customizable via an Administrator transaction and SIT – overwrites.---See 30535,077,724.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Resolve huge ECSA usage problem caused by DMHR

Our customer is now designing new account system and they caused ECSA shortage by plenty of DMHRs.This main contributing factor is BMP batch a lot of insert calls toward one area.When initial create they needs to insert 800 million root segments t...
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Enhance FILEDDWORD Built-in Function

Please add support for LRECL and BLKSIZE.
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

MQSeries MQMD data available using an IMS INQY call.

If possible we prefer to connect our MQ Series clients using OTMA, since this solution is more scalable. To minimize allocation of IMS resources, we have made it possible to run these applications in an asyncronous way. Our challenge is to be able...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to generate PL/I-includes from BMS

Since we are also using PL/I we would need the possibility to generate PL/I-includes from a BMS-mask in parallel to the existing possibility to generate COBOL-copybooks
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

INFO/INFO2 codes in Config Manager error messages should be documented

Some messages that the CICS Configuration Manager product produces contain codes, referred to as INFO and INFO2 codes, that are not documented and require involvement from IBM support before they can be interpreted, understood, and a solution for ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Enhance LIMIT parm in the CM report

When we ran CM report job(CCVBMAIN), the region went SOS. We then added the LIMIT parm but it only work if we have less number of CM records. Need a solution that CM should manage the CICS region memory and total number of CM records and finally g...
over 3 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

macro in host on demand

How manipulate a string variable in a macro. For exemple equivalence of java method "indexof" ?
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

Enhance ZRECP DISPLAY LOST and ZRECP DISPLAY ERRON

TPFUG_Req_Number: D13010ORIGIN DATE: April 22,2013REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT : Enhance ZRECP DISPLAY LOST and ZRECP DISPLAY ERRON to support a PGM parameter and a SKIP parameter. REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTION : Provide a functional entry that will display los...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

ignore case in HTTP header processing

Per section 4.2 of the HTTP/1.1 spec, please support case insensitive HTTP header names.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration