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Garanti Bank: RFE DBB's Load Scanner

Garanti is requesting an enhancement to the current load scanner to optionally report from the DBB WebApp both static and dynamic references within a given load module after a build. Dynamic modules include standard dynamic calls (DYNAM) and DLL b...
over 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Not under consideration

Alternative MAXDUMPT control for manual dumps

MAXDUMPT introduced by PJ46025 does not apply to catastrophic dumps but does apply to manual dumps. Taking manual dumps is usually a planned activity and likely the content is required/or possibly required.We would be told if a manual dump was tru...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

API mapping enhanced mapping: default value look-up

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include a look-up function for default field values
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Need MQ shared message consumption to be responsive to CICSplex workload balancing signals

We have two MQ application patterns which are unresponsive to workload balancing. Pattern 1 An application 1) reads a message from a shared MQ queue, 2) starts a new CICS transaction to process the message, and 3) return to step 1. The application...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICSplex Systems Management (CPSM) needs to respond better to LPAR workload

Need a new capability in CPSM to allow customers to manage WLM importance 1 workloads to a percentage of the LPAR capacity. Importance 1 workloads, such as CICS, perform best when they represent less than 95% of the workload on an LPAR. In our cas...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Separate Cics Security Definition for Platform and Application

At the Moment the Security function CLOUD.DEF includes: 1) APPLDEF - Create, display, and maintain application definitions in platforms.2) PLATDEF - Create, display, and maintain platform definitions. We need to separate both things, because we wa...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

OTMA Front-End Switch

Our IMS client has following business requirement : DataPower ==> ICON8 ==> IMS A ==> ICON3 ==> IMS B ==> ICON3 ==> IMS A ==> ICON8 ==> DataPower We need the IMS front-end switch function so that the send-receive call from ...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Specify TLS supported at URIMAP level

Able to override MINTLSLEVEL at SIT level (CICS default) with a new MINTLSLEVEL at lower URIMAP level.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

An option not to reset counts on USS stats records

In some of our regions we use DADS to open/close files in our regions. This can happen several times a day. Each time a file is closed a USS record is written to SMF and the count is reset to 0. Therefore, we have loads of USS records for files an...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Automatic mechanism to get programs started when any CICS region initializes

We would like a feature that could run a program in any CICS region during initialization. This could be implemented such that an application makes a request to a CICS service to define a program and library and they would be started every time CI...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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