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Increase performance of OTMA CM0 tpipes

Using CM0 IMS logging of intput and output messages becomes a bottleneck as message throughput increases on a tpipe. This is often hard to discern as internal transaction responses are unaffected but messages may be significantly delayed on enteri...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Not under consideration

DB Quiesce without RM in IMSPLEX

We have an application which has 20 single IMS production systems on 10 LPARS (2 IMS each) in one IMSPLEX . Every day at 00:00 AM we have to “DBR” all databases for a consistency point for the application. The procedure of stopping the application...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

zUNIT: input file with >7000 lines leads to JAVA heap issue

Large input file in zUNIT with number of lines ( > 7000 lines ) leads to issue. Need solution or best practice to work with large input files. IBM CASE: TS009275317
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

INQUIRE TSQNAME for remote TS on TSOR (TSMODEL)

I need to know if a TS is already used by someone else. TS are routed to another CICS, via a TSMODEL defintion. TS are created in the TSOR. But an INQUIRE TS in the router CICS doesn't INQUIRE the TS list in the routed CICS, but localy.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ability to launch ZVDT from CP4AIOPS (Infrastructure Automation) Portal

ZVDT currently provides RESTful APIS that can be used to launch it. Having this capability in the IA portal would provide a user friendly self-serve interface for the developers who will be using the CP4AIOPS porta. An ansible playbook would be re...
11 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Tracking Outbound of the Z

Currently zAPM supports tracking inbound and outbound between Sysplexes over MQ, but it does not currently support calls/transactions going outbound of the Z to another distributed application monitored by AppDynamics. When will outbound (E2E trac...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

zAPM to support iSeries

Include support for iSeries systems, in addition to zSeries
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE - Support for Multiple Versions

z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit (3.0.60 - current version) along with z/OS Connect EE 3.0.24, doesn't support Multiple version Naming for IMS or CICS APIs created. Though there are different fields available for 'Name' and 'version', while generating ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support "EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" in ZUnit

"EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" is a common syntax using in CICS, without the support we have a large portion of application team cannot adopt ZUnit.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Time Stamp Display Format (GMT/Local)

We are requesting the ability to choose the display format of the Time Stamp in CICS Explorer - Completed Tasks to be either GMT or Local time. We would like to publish reports on Completed Task but with a Time Stamp "hard-coded" as GMT will confu...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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