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Customer's EGL project will translate EGL program into Java program running on WAS server and COBOL program running on CICS. If the Java program and COBOL program have the different parmForm type (COMMPTR and CHANNEL), in some special cases, it wi...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

ZVFAC USAGE to show files and finds rather than simply accesses

The ZVFAC USAGE display gives total accesses which includes both find and file activity, for more clarity the display could be enhanced to show separate totals for file and find type accesses.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 8 Not under consideration

VFA performance suggestion

Whilst testing an application that issues thousands of FILECs on a specific VFA Immediate file address we saw the ZVFAC USAGE display never showed more than one access.This is because VFA uses a new buffer if the current one has the write active b...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

SIT parms changed - when become active at warm start

When you change parameters in the CICS SIT, then some parameters become active at CICS warm start (e.g.AKPFREQ) others not (e.g. MAXOPENTCBS). With NEWSIT=YES all paramters get active. Customer wants to know which parameter get active at CICS warm...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Improve REASON CODE for msg DFS074 to clarify diagnostic

When segment of input message is greater than LGMSG queue buffer the DFS074 message should be issued with a specific reason code for this situation.
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Webservices assistant program DFHWS2LS translates DATETIME fields to packed

DFHWS2LS, the CICS Webservices assistant program, starting at CICS 4.1 and later allowed the customer to provide a DATETIME format.    The default is PACKED15 so that the value is mapped to the CICS ABSTIME format.    When upgr...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

API for accessing CFDT's from non-CICS workloads.

Please provide an API to allow non-CICS workloads to access Coupling Facility Data Tables (CFDT).
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Information about CPU consumption in CTG per request inclusion in CH51 trace

We find a lack of information in the CPU consumption per request in CTG. We use CICS PA and there is no way of getting this information in any report. We have shown a similar interest in Req Id 21847.But our requirement is:We would like to know th...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Set future date support by Job Class

This is a request to split requirement RFE 34946 into two RFEs. For batch future date testing it would be valuable to be able to set future date support by Job Class. This would make it even easier to support batch and would be more versatile. Hou...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Correct DFS618A to follow proper IMS standards.

Message DFS618A is split across two lines and connected by '......' (7 periods ) with second line beginning with DFS000I. This violates DBCTL standard in that their should be a blank after DFS000I.Correct DFS618A to follow proper IMS standards.Ple...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 2 Not under consideration

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