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Override sessions with Initial Status = F for CLS/DEST Pass Sessions

Users take advantage of the Initial status parameter for sessions they wish to have started automatically by specifying F. When a user does this with a session designated as Multi, they are able to get back to the Supersession menu by hitting ATT...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Parameter colorisation in JCL editor

Add the possibility to colour a parameter in Window > Preferences > JCL > Editor > Syntax Colouring.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Not under consideration

CPU excessive when collecting data using CICS IA 5.1 and CICS IA 5.2.

Customer attempts to collect data using CICS Interdependency Analyzer. The CPU increases significantly when when CICS IA is activated. Customer performed tests where CICS CPU performance increased from 27% to 62% under CICS IA 5.1. There is some i...
over 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

added granularity to security around commands

TYPE-1 commands allowing granting a user start, stop, lock, and unlock authority separate from the authority to change other metadata, such as changing a TRAN from parallel to serial or setting EDITUC. TYPE-2 commands should support this, too, but...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

control authority to issue commands with wildcards

Allow controlling who has authority on issuing commands with wildcards
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

The explorer tool to display resource attribute as per defination.

The explorer tool should display resource attribute as per defination for consistency. e.g. avoid -1 to represent NO and so on.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Raise more error details to calling client

When an error occurs in a service in CICS, an ABEND ASRA for instance, it would be very helpful if the description of the error was raised up in the detail field up to the API calling client. For instance, instead of of receiving just ""errorMessa...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

ODP need support OMEGAMON for z/OS v5.5

Many mainframe customer is still using OMEGAMON for z/OS v5.5 and want to use ODP to stream Omegamon agent data to Elastic for dashboard and analytics purpose.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON Integration Monitor 0 Not under consideration

Modernize Exception Handling in EXEC CICS API

While learning CICS programming with Cobol, programmers with background in Java or other newer programming languages find fault with the current exception handling in CICS. Although CICS offers a broad range of techniques to cope with exceptions i...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Would like to see a CEMT Command to Inquire/SET the CICS/JVM Profile

It would be nice to have the capability to issue a CEMT SET/INQUIRE on a CICS/JAVA Profile for a specific JVM. Currently we cannot View the properties of a JVMProfile from within a CICS Address Space, we need to go to TSO and use OMVS or ISHELL to...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration