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IMS OTMA utilization of 64-bit memory for the TPIPES

Each TPIPE control block for an IMS OTMA consumes stores of Extended Private Storage from the IMS CTL region. It has associated other control blocks also allocated at Extended Private Storage.Using 64-bit storage could be a very good enhancement.
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

STACKVAL dumps (CTL-064009) showing CPS0 in EXITC processing

As requested by IBM, opening an RFE for what was previously in a PMR.PMR: 68273 004 000 Problem Details . Product or Service: Z/TPF 1.1.0 Component ID: 5748T1501 . Operating System: TPF . Problem title STACKVAL dumps (CTL-064009) showing CPS0 in E...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Command to stop IMS debug sub-regions

We are using IBM Debug Tool with the feature "private message regions". Unfortunately, some users forget to stop their private message region at the end of their debug session and it can lead to problems for our system teams when they need to shut...
almost 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Connections Import including Truststore

We currently share connections via plugin_customization.ini zFS .pref file links referenced by a TCPIPSERVICE/URIMAP definition pair. We have a requirement to change the TCPIPSERVICE Defs to SSL=Yes. We really need to be able to pre-configure the ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Show differences in Runner result view in user friendly way

In many cases the difference in result shows hexadecimal data in the Runner Results viewer The interpretation of the available information is very difficult Currently there seems to be a workaround via changing Test Result Format to "result deta...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

In OMEGAMON/Classic, it is nice to have a ZOOM function of the trace entry to view the elements of trace function

CICS systems programmers can verify more details of that issue if they need. This is certainly a betterment of quality of support for any datacenter.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

ADDI - Enable filtering of TWS applications during import

During import of TWS Applications in AD via AD Connect it is not possible to filter the import. Only the whole TWS Database can be imported for each project. So all irrelevant TWS Applications for a project are imported as well. We want to be able...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Question: support of ALTERNATE DDNAME LIST for COBOL programs

Hi, Is the use of ALTERNATE DDNAME LIST possible with programs created by the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler? If yes, how to know the order of the ddnames at the level of the compiled program? If not, register a change request to allow it. Reas...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 7 Not under consideration

ZVDT License Server running natively on Linux on zSystems

The customer would like to have all ZVDT components (i.e.: License Server) running natively on Linux on zSystems. It would helpful to have all components in the same platform to avoid delays, gaps and extra costs.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

ZVDT Web Server running natively on Linux on zSystems

The customer would like to have all ZVDT components (i.e.: Web Server - aka Provisioning tools) running natively on Linux on zSystems. It would helpful to have all components in the same platform to avoid delays, gaps and extra costs.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

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