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CICS Explorer - CPSM WLM Admin Enhance Navigation and Help Information

- Location of the WLMGROUPs is not easy to find- There is not a view for all resource types (WLMSPEC, WLMGROUP, WLMDEF, TRANGRP, etc)- NEW vs New From is confusing- Screen Help information is not built for all the screens- Categorization of Resour...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

ZDT - Add datasets to ADCD w/o having deployed ADCD using Tools

Requirement to use Tools for dataset copy from source system to ZDT ADCD w/o having initially deployed ADCD using Tools. In other words, no dependency on Tools required to deploy ADCD, then add data using Tools.
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

support private File in CICS Application

support private file in CICS application. So I can define file as part of application and use it in multi-version scenarios.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Add the Concurrency attribute to the Library RDO resource.

Add the Concurrency attribute to the Library RDO resource. It would have the same meaning and values as Concurrency on the Program definition, except it would apply to all programs loaded from the library. It could also be left blank (which would ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

XMLVIEW function is not present in FM DB2 plug-in

There is no way to see XML data on the XML column in the FM DB2 plug-in. Meanwhile in ISPF FM DB2 offers XMLVIEW command where XML can be viewed.
about 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2/RHEL/Systemd compliance gaps

Our mutual customer has identified several gaps in functionality with regard to the IBM DB2 database that were exposed when Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 transitioned from a System V init environment to systemd for booting and service initialization....
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

threshold on taskcnt for profiling report

I'm using profiling report. But analyzing performance on a small value of taskcnt is not significantI would like to set a "threshold" for a taskcnt value to exclude small activity from analyzis
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS CM report of defined configs

Provide a CICS CM batch report of all defined configs and associated CSDs.
over 5 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

snapc and wtopc baseless

Customer is asking that both the snapc and wtopc macro be made baseless to support application that are being written with baseless in mind. Here's an example of an application error.00001364 28768+ DS 0H Align @411.074 01-SNAPC00001364 AF02 0000 ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Memory usage of programs in a task.

We use CICSPA for analyze CICS tasks performance. We want to see memory usage of programs in a tasks. CICSPA provide this information only in task detail.
over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration