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Better management of IMS PGM name to Java class name mappings

For IMS Java programms (both Java batch and Java message processing programs) a mapping between IMS program names and Java class names must be provided in IMS PROCLIB member DFSJVMAP. Such a mapping within this member looks like this: IMSJAVPG=com...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 4 Not under consideration

Built-in Function SYSDSN

PL/I is lacking the ability to check for the existence of a dataset. Adding a built-in function like the clist SYSDSN function would be very helpful. DECLARE FOUND BIT(1) INIT('0'B); FOUND = SYSDSN("MY.DATASET");FOUND = SYSDSN("MY.PDS");FOUND = SY...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS to fully support encoded http messages

We are running a CICS Provider Web service. We need to compress the response. We have a transport handler which takes the response in DFHRESPONSE, zips the content into another container using a Java program, sets the http header Content-Type and ...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Re-design of the OMEGAMON ICSF to support ICSF PAUSE function

The ptf UJ04367 will stop or reduce the number of KCG0080W messages under most circumstances, but it will not completely address the ICSF PAUSE scenario. So re-design of the OMEGAMON ICSF processing is required in order to completely support the I...
about 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Display of BLF-Data

Interactive Analysis of a batch dump: Content of BLF data online shown in dump format. Info from compile listing is not used (as in Working-Storage).
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Passticket support for HWSSMPL1 (connect API)

HWSSMPL1 does not support passticket and we need passticket support for HWSSMPL1. One of our major application uses connect API which use HWSSMPL1 and we are looking at strengthening password using passphrase.
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Associate Complete Program available in COBOL editor

Associate Complete Program action is only available within the zOS Projects view. It should also be available within the editor. When selected the resources available to chose from should be from the RSE view and / or an API should be available to...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Auto refresh for CICS Explorer displays

For various displays on CICS Explorer, e.g. alerts, running regions, current tasks, I'd like to be able to get the display to automatically refresh at a set interval, in the same way as you can in CPSM and MQ Explorer.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

Request CICS level DS 2dispatch trace entries be available in level DS 3

Certain CICS trace entries that identify when a dispatch activity changes TCBs are located in level DS 2 type traces while other trace entries for similar dispatch mode changes appear in both level 2 and 3. We request that all dispatch entries tha...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CA7 Directives

AD not accepting CA7 Scheduling directives
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration