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Managed connections for ECI Version 2 API

ECI Version 2 application programmers have the responsibility of explicit connection management. This means either:1. Creating home-grown connection management logic, allowing connections to be pooled for efficient re-use, avoiding the overhead of...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Utilisation (Remplissage) d'un PDS

Je ne retrouve pas sur RDz les informations ? Current allocation ?, ? Current Utilization ? et ? Dates ? des PDS, visibles sur le 3.2 de TSO, et utiles ? nos d?veloppeurs.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

Would like to view Fault analyzer history

Would like to be able to view the information from the H (Duplicate history) option in Fault Analyzer.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Customer BNYM - Partitioned Dataset Source for a Project: wildcarding as a way to subset PDS source

AD 505.0 Customer: Bank of New York Mellon Customer installation uses a single PDS for JCL for the entire installation. Assigning this single PDS to a project is not desirable. Customer, who has worked in several large financial institutions, asse...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement to DFHLS2WS

Enhance DFHLS2WS to support PL/I PIC'999' fields for input structures and any style PL/I PIC field for output. At run time, the data mapper should treat the fields as character fields. Right now the developer has to create addtiional structure def...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Not under consideration

CICS transactions are contained in variable... Need a way to map to transaction name via csv file

Customer has a large CICS application that uses COBOL variables for CICS transaction names. We need a way via csv file, similar to dynamic calls that map variable names to programs, to map cobol variables to specific CICS transaction ids. AD suppo...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

In a CICSplex there should be no dependency regarding the sequence starting CMAS regions.

there is always a dependency if service applied for CPSM to restart the maintenance point at first. In a CICSplex there should be no dependency regarding the sequence starting CMAS regions and their depending MAS regions.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for REXX development

Add full support for the REXX language in RDz including content assist, source formatting, and syntax checking.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

HALDB multiple HLQ for VSAM indexes and DBD names

State of TN uses multiple High Level Qualifiers for OSAM and VSAM definition - i.e. DSNPREF parameter needs to allow multiple parameters - VDE* for VSAM and DE* for OSAM / HALDB
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

Switch off CMF for a specified Transaction

CEB has a web support application, a single request will lead to multiple transaction been invoked,eg CWXN, CWBA, as well as some mirror task, this will bring a huge cost to print the CMF data, so they wonder if there is a way to switch off the CM...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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