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DFHCSDUP and CEDA do not have the same functionality

The confirmability and compliance in managing systems like CICS is more and more required. For this reason managing the CICS CSD with batch jobs is the preferred way because you can archive your batch job's output for inspection purposes.Because o...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Host Connecion Emulator Session missing from Toolkit 4.6

I am in charge of migrating TPF Toolkit from version 4.2.11 to version 4.6 and there is major functionnality that missing : Host Connecion Emulator Session. Most of our developers use this feature to connect to the TPF machine and perform tests. A...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

RKLVLOG with only meaningful messages

All messages in RKLVLOG should be interesting and meaningful for the customer.
over 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5+ - TUNE(level) compilation option

The IBM compiler C/C++ for z/OS has a TUNE() compilation option to improve the binary code generated with the ARCH() compilation option:- ARCH(level1) sets the maximum supported hardware level- TUNE(level2) optimizes the binary code generated comp...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Server needs to support requesting a refresh of the performance block for long running inflight tasks

CICS Transaction Server needs to support requesting a refresh of the performance block for long running inflight tasks after a VARY WLM,ACTIVATE | REFRESH command is issued. User is running CICS Transaction Server V1R3M0 had has several long runni...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHRMUTL should print planned STARTUP warm/emergency (GSE requirement DBCICD99024)

DESCRIPT : The information in the global catalog for the planned startup ( warm or emergency ) is not printed by the DFHRMUTL. This means an incorrect (or incomplete) information given by the utility. EMER / WARM brings AUTO ASISBUSVAL : INVVAL : ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CHECK at the Folder Level

Would like to be able to right-click on a Folder and run the CHECK function for that folder only. Would like to see a change in the Icon when a member has all components already available as of the last time CHECK was run. Would like to have a dat...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

New CICSPA for other wait time

In SMF110 records the suspend time field is the sum of all CICS wait times + "other wait time". We would like to have "other wait time" as a CICSPA field in order to rapidly identify if the problem is a CICS issue or a z/OS issue.
over 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Waterfall library display.

i'm facing, several times now, since i start coding with RPP a problem with data creation/ modification. With PACBASE data elements, "segments" and data structure were defined in to libraries. The libraries itselves were hierarchicaly organized in...
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

JCL substitution works at steps level, not at job level

In RDz, in a property group, there's a tabl JCL substitution for steps like COBOL, PL/I, LInk, Run, but not for JCL; This means you cannot use substitution variables for the whole job. The only way to achieve this is follow the steps described in ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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