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INQUIRE TSQNAME for remote TS on TSOR (TSMODEL)

I need to know if a TS is already used by someone else. TS are routed to another CICS, via a TSMODEL defintion. TS are created in the TSOR. But an INQUIRE TS in the router CICS doesn't INQUIRE the TS list in the routed CICS, but localy.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Increase performance of OTMA CM0 tpipes

Using CM0 IMS logging of intput and output messages becomes a bottleneck as message throughput increases on a tpipe. This is often hard to discern as internal transaction responses are unaffected but messages may be significantly delayed on enteri...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Not under consideration

DB Quiesce without RM in IMSPLEX

We have an application which has 20 single IMS production systems on 10 LPARS (2 IMS each) in one IMSPLEX . Every day at 00:00 AM we have to “DBR” all databases for a consistency point for the application. The procedure of stopping the application...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

modify BAQSMFP to provide CSV delimited output options

Currently the sample library contains program BAQSMFP to format SMF123 T1 V1 and V2 records. Could this be enhanced to also produce CSV delimited files for V1 and V2 records to simplify consumption by other tools.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ZSDEA modifications to support FENCED OFF file pool support

ZSDEA Modifications - Allow file pool "FENCING OFF" or the ability to de-activate a range of ordinals without requiring RAMFIL DE-ACTIVATION updates to the FACE TABLE. IBM's RAMFIL parameter is used to indicate if a pool segment is going to be dea...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Build needs to support Db2 Stored Procedures

Need to be able to input stored procedures into a Project
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Browsing the file is taking lot of time

Viewing and Browsing the sequencial file in RDz is taking lot of time.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

AD - Pop up alert to broadcast notification to end users.

In the current AD version there is no facility to broadcast notification alert to user's community, instead we usually send information to application discovery users via email distributions. This idea is about introducing new feature to notify ma...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add CMAS Ready for workload in Plex startup message

Add a message akin to "CMAS <this CMAS> is ready for requests for <CICS Plex>" that can be used for when a CMAS initialization of a plex is complete.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

RFE request for CL/Supersession. allow a user to REORDER their menu and nothing else.

Hello,Our client would like to see an option where their users would be allowed to update / Reorder their menu without changing anything else. Like on the Modify screen (KLSMOD21) with fewer options. Or don't allow seeing the modify screen and all...
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration