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Adding search path for IDMS schema, subschema and record

Adding search path for IDMS schema, subschema and record in GIU AD Build Client (settings panel) and in asynchronous command MS-DOS.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Purge mecanism of project in AD tools for SQL Server & OrientDB

Possibilty in the AD tools to have a purge of selected projects in SQL Server and OrientDB.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS LINK - DPL to remote system with link TIMEOUT value

EXEC CICS LINK PROGRAM(STEVE) TIMEOUT(NNNN) timeout value for DPL in seconds.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Ability to Add View Links via plugin_customization.ini File

Allow CICS Explorer (CEX) Admins to pre-load CICS Explorer installation view(s), by adding "view links" in the CEX plugin_customization.ini file
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Better validation of License server names

If you by accident type in a invalid host name for the License server in the zD&T EE Admini interface, you do not get an error, but at the instance deployment time you get a strange error that the target cannot communicate with the ZD&T EE...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CPSM routing to ensure workload is not routed to a Non Responsive MAS

In the event that a CICS target region become non-responsive we need to ensure that workload is not routed to that region. This may require a new routing algorithm, and could encompass other situations where are target region should be removed fro...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CPSM to detect unavailable subsystems directly

CPSM needs to directly recognize when subsystems such as DB2 or MQ are not available to a target region rather than depending on routed workload abending in the region to change the weight of the target region. In addition this could be linked wit...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow jumping to specific point in flowchart from the source code

Allow jumping to a specific location in the flowchart based on the source-code (e.g. by double-clicking a statement / line)
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Reuse of DB2 connections and DB2 prepared statements in IMS JMP regions

Java applications running in an IMS JMP region have to reestablish the DB2 connection for each input message they process. Because of this prepared statements also cannot be reused when processing the next input message. They have to be prepared a...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 3 Not under consideration

Add batch job (JCL) function to create web service and .SAR file in z/OS connect for IMS.

Enhance z/OS Connect for IMS by using batch job to create web service and .sar file . For example like CICS does . (BAQLS2JS) submit JCL job to create service and file . The current environment might have lots of applications need to publish as AP...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration