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Bring SupportPac CS04 / wsbind utility into base support

SupportPac CS04, the wsbind utility, is current as-is and its functionality should be brought into base CICS support and managed between releases.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

In addition to syntax checking in the Editor, please add semantic checking as well.

Semantic checking of the code in IDz Editor would make mainframe developers even more productive since they still are able to create code in IDz that passes all syntax checks without being valid code. You only see it in the JES Spoolfiles, once yo...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

User defined constants

Implement user defined constants using the COBOL Standard "Constant entry".
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

CPSM WLM Enhancement

Customer needs an enhancement to the CPSM WLM Algorithm in order to improve the workload among the targets. The customer has a single CICSPlex running across two Sysplexes. The environment is large enough that it not possible to merge the existing...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhance API Requester resilience

To improve API Requester resilence with a tactic similar to Circuit Breaker pattern
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Add the hability to obtain ODO counter with the JSON PARSE statement

As of now, when the API we call return a dynamical JSON array, we need to declare a COBOL array with a large number of occurences in order to be sure to retrieve all the data with the JSON PARSE statements. But, in most cases, the json array will ...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

DFS2291I message only mode of operation

Message DFS2291I is issued when DFSVSMxx keyword LOCKTIME is used. Today LOCKTIME has 2 options ABEND or STATUS. We have the need for a new option MSGONLY that results ina) no action against the waiterb) message DFS2291I being issued to syslogc) t...
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Support of Assembler Subprogram Calls

Currently when recording in zUnit, any subprogram calls to assembler programs are not recorded. For more complete testing of a program it would be beneficial for zUnit to also intercept and record assembler subprogram calls.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - ability to view / filter SIT parms for multiple regions

Currently the CICS SIT parms (for combined, JCL, SYSIN etc) can only be displayed in an Attribute view for a single CICS region. We would like the ability to view / filter SIT parms for multiple regions similar to the way other Region Attributes c...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

support for multiple MQ systems in OTMA destination descriptor TYPE=MQSERIES

For high availabity reasons we have configured 2 production lines in the same sysplex:CEC01-LPAR01-IMS01-MQ01CEC02-LPAR02-IMS02-MQ02Both lines are coupled by various product features.I1) IMS01 and IMS02 use the same IMS shared message queueI2) IMS...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Not under consideration