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CICS T/S Named Counter services - externalize the actual name of the Named Counter within statistics

CICS provides detailed Named Counter Pool statistics but it should also externalize the actual names of the Named Counters using the pool along with detailed usage for each counter. I'm told by IBM that CFRTRFLD in DFHNCCF has the Named Counter na...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Needs IDz user build to support EWM dataset definition using variables

When a dataset definition in Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) is defined with a variable like ${myPrefix}.MYCPY then IDz user build doesn't resolve it and dataset is not added to the generated JCL. rsecomm log will show IDz client user build ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

Setting a custom value for the Content-Type HTTP header in z/OS Connect API response messages

We are currently trying to align the error messages sent by our company's REST APIs with this RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7807 (Problem Details for HTTP APIs). One of the standards in the RFC is setting the Content-Type HTTP head...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Relief IZWS PIF LIST Memory Storage Limitation

Our installation has written several IZWS Add-on components that extract data from the Current Plan. Some monitoring or live snapshots requests read the entire CPOP segments. Therefore, it happens, when there is more workload, that the PIF LIST is...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Canzlog should stick to current find standards

CANZLOG find has introduced a separate means of doing a RepeatFind Called REVFIND. This is different then all other means of repeat find via browse. Canzlog should utilize existing standards for repeat find.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Provide a FUNCTION MAX-LENGTH for the maximum length of self-referencing ODO structures

If a linkage section structure contains one or more ODO items resident in the structure itself, Enterprise COBOL provides no means of determining the maximum length of such a structure for allocation purposes, short of a numeric literal copied fro...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Future consideration

IMS ORF to invoke IMS Index Builder independently to be able to rebuild the Indexes while the Main DB and indexes are active in the control regions.

In order to rebuild the Prim or Secondary indexes, the Main DB and indexes must be taken offline. If the Index build utility can be invoked by ORF and perform the Index maintenance using the Shadow copy, the main database and indexes will remain a...
over 2 years ago in IMS Online Reorganization Facility for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Enhance CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks

Enhance the CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks to not be limited to checking only when ESSS is not already running. This would provide a sanity check with applying maintenance that requires ESSS to be terminated and restarted.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Using specific CICS Channel Name

In the z/OS Connect OpenAPI3 Designer, "JSONCHANNEL" is always used as a CICS channel name and there is currently no way to change CICS channel name when we invoke CICS Channel program via z/OS Connect. It means if customer has CICS Channel progra...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Need Intrinsic Function equal to STCKCONV macro

Provide an Intrinsic Function that performs the same conversion as the STCKCONV Assembler macro to eliminate the necessity of writing and maintaining a separate Assembler subroutine to perform the STCKCONV action.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

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