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CICS APPL example update

CICS sample VTAM APPL definition does not include LOSTERM=IMMED
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

When an ISV vendor has a comma in their name remove it before populating the IZSAM Db2 repository.

There are several ISV vendors with a comma in there company name and when you use the data extracted from IZSAM in CSV format this creates an issue when reading the file with another program. If you were to scan the ISV vendor company name and rem...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 3 Not under consideration

temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for RBD to RAM disk

Client need to improve the project build performance in RBD, so they have following suggestion to improve performance: 1.To change temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for Rational Business Developer tool (ver. 9.6, 9.5.1, 9.5) for the RAM disk 2....
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Implement CEDA CHECK (e.g. for LIST) to ensure CICS region starts properly

Implement the CEDA CHECK option in CICS Explorer (see http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r2/topic/com.ibm.cics.ts.resourcedefinition.doc/ceda/commands/dfha4_check.html) to allow for example checking LISTs for consistency
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Job Log view is needed to handle very large job output

We have CICS region jobs running on different regions. When user wants to see the job log from RDz its throwing heap error. since the output size is more than 3 million lines. I want to act on my job out put rather than viewing 3million lines in o...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

Create new web socket timeout attribute

Like to request a new web socket timeout attribute separate from the DTIMEOUT element. As described in a recent PMR from IBM the DTIMEOUT is designed to release dead locks from other resources. It spends a lot of time issuing automatic retries and...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

PIC X(n) support for binary.

In somme case we are sending/receiving byte buffer. This king of data is typed as byte buffer in java and type PIC X(n) in COBOL. In this case, we need a solution to transfert this kind of data througth JSON to COBOL without conversion.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Omegamon DB2 to monitor DB2/IRLM in reliable manner

Omegamon DB2 can slow down or even stop reporting IRLM information when IRLM becomes very busy. This is the most important time for Omegamon DB2 to report this information as it's the one tool to help SMEs recover DB2 normal operations. Without th...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide ability to decrypt encrypted query/path parameters in a GET request

The API consumer need to pass a client card / credit card number to retrieve account information such as account balance or mortgage information with a GET method. Even though the request URL is protected in transport layer with TLS/SSL, the URL c...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enable 'Active job address space' view for all SYSPLEX address spaces

We have a SYSPLEX of three LPARs. In 'Remote Systems => JES => Active Jobs' I can see all active Jobs of those three systems. In 'Active job address space' view (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/adfz/explorer-for-zos/3.2?topic=subsystem-displayin...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration