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Allow CEA taking operlog snapshot asynchronously

The description for MR0115131314. It opened in FITS due to 68397,000, 738 PMR.In the current design, CEA was not able to create the operlog snapshot for the duration specified in CEAPRMxx (default is 30 minutes) quickly enough, and the request tim...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Debugging using CADB is allowed for only one user at a time in TXSeries

Currently TXSeries restricts multiple users to debug simultaneously using CADB transaction. Only one user can debug at a time. This is a pain point for customer because it creates a huge bottle neck in their application development environment. Cu...
almost 12 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

When in jes output queue - need to have hot links

When I open up a JES output queue I have the JOB as it was run. Many times I have issues or want to look things up. This is usually during testing or if a job abends. I would like to be able to highlight a DSN and open, browse or view the file whi...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

error messages or reason why - problem I have seen is with endevor

When pulling files from endevor or updating files we get error without any explanation. thought I alreay entered this but can't find it in my list of RFE. If douple, sorry.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Add Code Coverage option to stop execution

provide an option to stop Code Coverage execution based on user specificying a code coverage limit. For example, if user specifies 100%, stop code coverage execution once 100% of the code is covered. This eliminates execution redundancy and optimi...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Reduce maximum CRPA C-O-W storage requirements

On several occasions we have increased our CRPA C-O-W area to avoid the 80% full warning issued by CNG0 SNAPC-064080, however increasing this limit results ina reduction in VFA size due to the extra CRPA page and segment table that are allocated.N...
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Allow %INCLUDE and %XINCLUDE to appear within preprocessor procedures

Allow %INCLUDE and %XINCLUDE to appear within preprocessor procedures and also resolve %INCLUDEs, %XINCLUDEs, and macro invocations within ANSWER strings. Example: ? SYSLIB member QSUB: %DCL QSUB ENTRY; %QSUB: PROC; ANSWER('/* QSUB */'); %END QSUB...
almost 12 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Automatic detection of current RRDS by RDDS Extraction utility. (old MR092111406 )

Customer would like to create a copy of the old IMSGEN macro based on the latest information contained in his IMS sistem and stored into DRD RDDS Data set; these will be used in case of problems to recover the subsystem.The IMS RDDS Extraction uti...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 4 Not under consideration

Display list of programs in 31 or 64 bit COW areas

Currently there is no display to show a list of programs allocated in each C-O-W CRPA program area. This would be useful to identify which programs might be considered for migration to the normal C-O-W area.This information is available in the IPA...
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Move TYPE=DATA programs from C-O-W to normal CRPA program area

Currently all TYPE=DATA programs are allocated by default in the C-O-W program area but the majority are never updated.Better to allocate these programs in the normal CRPA area which offers some protection against core corruption and does not attr...
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration