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AA-080 (ICBC) Replication restart point prior to workoad switch, during Graceful Switch.

When GDPS restart q replication in the reverse direction, it issues a warm start, causing Q-REP to start reading the DB2 logs from the time when the replication was previously stopped. Instead, the use of a timestamp or LRSN should be considered.
almost 10 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

Application level data on Continuous Data Collection

ITM currently provides system level monitoring. However, there is a huge need to be able to drill down to application level monitoring. The current standard data collection has the ability to get file statistics and program statistics. However, th...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Prot record initialization

When bring up a loosely coupled z/TPF from a zero'ed data base the prot records (#PRORI.) both tape and utility records should be initialized programmatically by the using program.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

SuperC(option 3.12) High CPU usage

We have a user reporting his observations of very high CPU consumption and running long for PGM=ISRSUPC when any kind of DPLINE control card is involved during comparing of two files. The user says ISRUPC used to be a whole lot faster and consume ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 5 Not under consideration

TOS Console Fallback

When performing manual console fallback from a given TOS/OSA-ICC 3215 device due to operator entry/response being Out-Of-Sequence (OOS), it appears that when returning to the same device, the associated OSA-ICC card has not always been reset prope...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

CICSAS auto check XA connection and recover broken connection with resource management(such as Database)

The client expect TXSeries can provide a group of parameters for XA connection. During CICS is in idle, it can auto-check XA connection with resource manager( database), if checking is failed, the idle CICSAS will keep retrying by short-term and l...
almost 10 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

ENTRY POINT CONTAINER DEFINITION

We are running Java and PL/1 in an application context. As the developers have started to integrate Java in our environment we have the need of an communication between two applications. This all works fine, if you are not shipping data from one l...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Need API count for CICS Transactions/Programs

I am requesting a feature that would allow me to get a count by API, all the APIs that were executed during the life of a CICS program or Transaction.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

support ABtest using CICS application multi-version in production

open on behalf of ICBC. Customer want to use application multi-version capability in CICS TS 5.2 to support ABtest in production. But it doesn't work. When request cross application, the request may go to the wrong version
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow dynamic parameters to be passed to PLTPI programs

Our product optionally uses parameters defined in the SIT as INITPARM data. The data is read when the program executes, and specifies control options. Our goal of simplifying the installation of the product would be far simpler if we had a more dy...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration