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Parallel processing in a region while waiting for sycnhronous ICAL call response

We foresee increased Intention to use of IMS applications as consumers of web services. With the current ICAL design a dependent region will be occupied by a single transaction waiting for a response to a synchronous callout request. This is not a...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer: Remove a transaction from WLM TranGroup

Remove a transaction from an existing WLM transaction group without need to inform the WLM Specification name. The intention is the removing action take effect in all Specification where that transaction group is associated to.(As equivalent in WU...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer: Improve CICS System links definition

Easier way to create System link definitions using existing ones as model.(As equivalent in WUI Resource Name: SYSLINK View name: EYUSTARTSYSLINK.CREATE)
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer: CICS Region x System groups and Links

Open CICS System Definition editor and see all System Groups this region is member of and which systems it is connected to.Allow user to add and delete groups and links from this editor view.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CPSE program check manual dump

In order to get more information on a CPSE program check the customer is requesting that as part of this process the code branch tothe manual dump routine an attempt to take the dump.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Provide Fortran compiler option to force variables to be explicitly declared

The IMPLICIT none statement is available to us, but it has to be coded in every single program, subroutine and function, whereas a compiler option would not require a code modification to enforce explicit declarations. The PL/I compiler has the RU...
over 10 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / Fortran 3 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer and Listeners

CICS Explorer needs to support definition and operation of LISTENERS. These are currently defined and maintained using transaction EZAC online within CICS, or EZACICD assembler macros.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Provide callable service to return text string of EXEC CICS command

The provision of a Callable service which would receive (at least) (i) the address and (ii) length of the Parameter list resulting from the translation of an EXEC CICS command (including the whole of ARG0, (iii) the address and (iv) the length of ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Reduce CPU overhead from format-2 global keypointing

The ZMOWN performance collector shows 92% of CPU cycles on an idle VPARs are consumed by CGL9 to perform format-2 global keypointing every second.The source of this overhead is an EVNTC/POSTC/DLAYC loop used by the parent CGL9 ECB to wait for its ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Eliminate unnecessary resource usage by CDC on VPARs test systems

TPF Control Program creates an ECB every second to check the Continuous Data Collection status in the ICDCCNTL global record.Even if CDC is disabled the global record is updated with a timestamp so must be keypointed every second, also the localti...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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