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PLT TABLES LOADED DURING THE STARTUP. NOT COMPILED.

Our Macys customer have over 400 regions, each using it's own PLT PI and PLT SD. During an upgrade, we have to compile over 800 PLT tables, which is very time consuming. Plus we have an extra work to document and keep track of all the PLTs to know...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

dynamic update of a policy without stopping CDP started tasks.

Today, when we update a policy, we have to stop start SDE, LF and DS to activate the changes. It's not acceptable in a production environment.
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Delivered

Listing GDG bases & their attributes on cluster level instead of dataset level

In the RDM (and in the TEP) we could see all GDG datasets with GDG level, Max Datasets in GDG, but it's not summarized by GDG BASE. Information on cluster level is not shown. It wil be helpful to see it on cluster level and it will help in better ...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Reporting 2 Delivered

Improve COBOL OFFSET report usability

Without the OPTIMIZE option in earlier versions (or with OPT(0)), the location of the first instruction generated for each statement could then be used when debugging a failing program to accurately deduce the COBOL statement that was being proces...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

View KOBABOUT - display product subversions

Currently KOBABOUT shows product version only: CFG/FW.. V7.3.0 CICS.... V5.5.0 DB2..... V5.4.0 CICS/TG. V5.5.0 ITM/Z... V1.2.0 Java.... V5.5.0 MQ/CFG.. V7.3.0 MQ...... V7.5.0 z/OS.... V5.5.0 Int/Bus. V7.5.0 We would like to see subversions t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

Large PIC9 fields not managed by z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit

The int type in Java can be used to represent any whole number from -2147483648 to 2147483647.Invocation of APIs fails when API is created using z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit from COPY vith big PIC9 fields.Swagger must be manually updated inserting ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

zUnit: We need to mix hyphen and underscores in the data items

We are trying to roll out zUnit but we got a problem with the data items. Our biggest customer builds his data items as a mix of hyphen and underscores. But as we read, those items are not allowed:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQ2R2...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

Include TLS Level information in CICS performance data record

Currently for CICS regions that is not relying on TCPIP for security, the CICS performance data does not have the TLS level information that was selected during SSL Handshake for the incoming web requests. The CICS performance data should be exten...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

We want to use systemsymbols (variables) in Library RDO DSN fields

We want to be able to use System symbols (IEASYMxx) in Library RDO DSN fields. More generaly: it should be made available to CICS RDO Resources. And/Or there could be an CICS API Command to inquire systemsymbols (browsing, read next...)
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

z/OS Connect SMF123 Enhancements for identified the caller

Our client has asked to trace the activity of these managers by USER ID / IP ADDRESS / Services called.In SMF 123, it lack IP Address. It would be interesting to add the IP address of the caller in the record smf 123.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered