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Additional ZRECP LONG support to avoid long running behavior when Long Chain Detection thresholds are set too low

Recently during a system outage a Recoup was necessary to validate the integrity of our Database once the system was back up. As part of normal Recoup procedures a ZRECP LONG display entry is made to view logs of DF Files that contain subfiles tha...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Not under consideration

keyrc protection restoration should be nested

A method is needed to allow nested sa ving and restoring of protect keys. The current keyrc method only works for 1 level.
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Add details to the message DFS2082 RESPONSE MODE TRANSACTION TERMINATED WITHOUT REPLY

The IMS message ?DFS2082 RESPONSE MODE TRANSACTION TERMINATED WITHOUT REPLY? is sent when a transaction defined a 'response mode' has not generated a reply. So, to avoid keeping the terminal waiting for an answer the IMS sends this message when th...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

Sub-projects associated with CARMA - 'Extract to', 'Retrieve from Endevor' options

From a CARMA-associated project I can select two options - Extract to Remote project and Team Retrieve from Endevor. If you select any of these options, RDz asks you if you want to override the member. The connection is 'backward'. Extract/Retriev...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

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almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Stronger Ciphers for Host Access Toolkit

Would like to request a more compliant ciphers be added to the support for Host Access Toolkit. ciphers like the aes256-ctr as well as others
almost 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

BPXP018I message in e3270UI (during shutdown)

During shutdown of OMEGAMON XE on z/OS e3270UI address space (TOM) message BPXP018I appears in joblog and syslog.
almost 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add a facility to alow User show how many Transactions have been processed by a SQ Member

Customer reported that in a Shared Queues environment the /DIS Command Outout does not allow him to verify which IMS in the IMSPlex has processed the Transactions.Customer SP's which are implementing new IMS Shared Queues Environments to proc...
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the IMS SQL batch utility and the IMS DDL generation batch utility

At the moment the only way to execute DDL statements on z/OS is to run the IMS SQL Batch Utility. This utility is using the IMS Universal JDBC Driver to connect to IMS Connect and executes the DDL statements through ODBM. This forces you to setup ...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Enhance AFCI/AFCY to indicate holder of resource

Enhance the AFCI/AFCY transaction abends to indicate what task was holding the resource. This could be done by dumping (not abending) the holding task or at least producing a message showing what the holding task was.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration