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CICS WEB APIs supported by TXSeries compatible with CICS TS API same IDEA opened for CICS TX

the API of CICS TS and CICS WEB, they are not exactly the same. Following CICS WEB APIs are supported by TXSeries to work CICS application as HTTP clients: WEB PARSE command WEB OPEN command WEB CONVERSE command WEB CLOSE command ...
almost 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CICS WEB APIs supported by TXSeries compatible with CICS TS API

the API of CICS TS and CICS WEB, they are not exactly the same. Following CICS WEB APIs are supported by TXSeries to work CICS application as HTTP clients: WEB PARSE command WEB OPEN command WEB CONVERSE command WEB CLOSE command If you look into ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS TX 0 Future consideration

CMDMON - Show Actual Parent Command issuing command

Have the CMDMON DISPLAY command show the actual REXX procedure that issued the command and not the REXX procedure that started the chain.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Prevent errors with PIPE CZR if CANZLOG data is not available

Prevent message errors if reading CANZLOG data via the PIPE CZR command when part of the time frame is not available.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Better handling of message inserts agains stopped TPIPEs and transactions

When applications perform asynchronous callouts over a TPIPE and the distributed service, which should receive the messages isn't available it comes to a queuing in IMS. Depending on the amount of asynchronous callouts the message queue can get fi...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Addtional information on check report

Check report in AD incorrectly miss some information about IDMS components (schemas, subschemas, records and modules)
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Improve CTC WTO option when set to Y

When performing file upload operations CTC WTO messages can be set to Y or N, with N being the default. When set to N the only indication of activity are SMS dataset deallocation messages. When set to Y all history control cards are displayed indu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

CICS System Policy for Extra Partition TDQ WRITE output, to detect large output TDQ; there is one at Task Level

We have several output TDQ's that get filled with Millions of TDQ Writes; fills up JES Spool; get paged to Close/Open TDQ to SPOOL off. We have PLT process to do this at Midnight; but now they are filling at arbitrary times; we get paged with aler...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

IPCS to format the active HANDLE's for a task

Right now IPCS only shows the HTB control blocks. It would be nice if IPCS could format the control blocks into a table showing which handles are active
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Removing application group entry in CP

When adding a Application Group to CP and you regret (for some reason) and want to cancel your way back, an entry is left in CP preventing to add the Application Group again using same Input Arrival values. Cancel during add, should mean cancel (a...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration