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Short term pool support for greater than 32,767 directories.

Customer is requesting that IBM increase the number of short term pool directories to go beyond the 32,767 limitation.
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Please update SMF123 to allow for records in milliseconds

The current implementation only allows hour-mins-secs to be collected in SMF123. We would like to get milliseconds into the report.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

GEO-530 (Credit Suisse) INGHWCMD Security

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: sir_mc_henrySubmitters Company: Credit Suisse PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: GEO-530 (Credit Suisse) INGHWCMD SecurityHomework Assigned: Requirement Category: GDPS - CommonCurrent Status: IntialClosed Status: Se...
about 9 years ago in GDPS 10 Delivered

Add MFA Support for Debug Profile Editor in Eclipse IDE

Currently some ADFz products (such as File Manager and Fault Analyzer) work perfectly with IDz Eclipse IDE while using MFA and PassTickets, while others, such as the Debug Profile Editor do not. Additionally, if you try to use the Debug Profile Ed...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Delivered

IMS Online Reorg - OSAM PS to OSAM LDS

Allow converting from OSAM Physical Sequential to OSAM Linear Dataset via Online Reorg Shadow Copy (SHADOW(E)) technique. This is needed for IMS OSAM Encryption.
over 2 years ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 3 Delivered

RDz - Expanded COBOL source should support COPY ... REPLACING

In a source where no syntax errors are present, the expanded source does show errors. This is due to the fact that the COPY ... REPLACING statement is not fully executed. Only the original copybook is presented in the source, but the replacing act...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Remove RSR feature without stop IMS

Customer migrated from RSR solution to XRC solution for disaster recovery site. But, if we need to remove XRC function in active site, the 'DELETE.GSG' command need to offline all IMS shared the RECON dataset. Customer SYSPLEX env. is rolling main...
almost 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Delivered

Limit the storage a JVM can use in the CICS region

CICS region fails because all the storage below the bar was exhausted. Storage was consumed by the JVM.JVM is running in z/OS adress space - so CICS doesn't recognize this and no SOS will be produces.Related to PMR: 89444,112,84
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS could gather diagnostics information regarding TCPIP stack failures.

When TCPIP Stack has left the TCPIP SYSPLEX GROUP by consequence of a failure on the stack itself and do not prevent if of working for completely. On this case, CICS TCPIPServices, used for receiving IBM INTEGRATION BUS (or Message Broker) calls ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

enhancement to ZOSConnect APi call monitor

It is very difficult to troubleshoot API issues in ZOS Connect. You can set the trace level high and see some information in trace.log but trace.log is not easily readable. It would be great to see something user friendly on monitoring API calls a...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered