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DT needs ability to list and to delete LDD-requests

In EXPLICITDEBUG-mode DT needs to know what module you want to debug. This can be done in multiple ways - base is in each case a NAMES INCLUDE LOADMOD / CU which is mostly done implicitly by AT ENTRY, AT LOAD and LDD. When save and restore of brea...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

NQEA Freechain storage is not freed until CICS is recycled.

When a CICS region goes SOS(Short on Storage) NQEA control blocks on the freechain are not freed. This resulted in task waiting for storage to run/complete and never being able to run because there are many NQEAs on the FREECHAIN (available but no...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Ability to Find and Locate Report Set - Forms.

Performance Analyzer - When selecting reports within a report set (Option #2), available report forms are displayed by using the F4 prompt. Once the list of available report forms are displayed, there is no way to search through the list of forms....
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Allow automatic restart of CICS WEB INTERFACE after a TCP/IP outage

The CICS Web Interface CWI goes into an immediate disable processing if the OS/390 eNetwork Communications Server abends. The CWI has to be manually restarted in order to restart the CICS Web interface. The CICS internet guide says : 2.13.1 Recove...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Make SPI INQUIRE SYSTEM, PROGRAM, TRANSACTION THREADSAFE (SHARE requirement SSCICS07004)

Make the SPI inquire interface threadsafe (e.g. INQUIRE SYSTEM PROGRAM,TRANSACTION)
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Better command history

DT's command history could be improved with some small additions:• It shouldn't contain commands STEP and GO (maybe configurable depending on SET ECHO).• It should have more entries (maybe configurable). Often when debugging you has entered a more...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Cobol large variable, monitor display as much as possible and give meaningful message if too large to handle

1. When hovering over or monitoring very large variables, display as much of the beginning of the variable as possible.2. When the variable is too large to display all of it, give a meaningful error message indicating this.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Provide GETMAINED Storage Limit by transaction (SHARE requirement SSCICS97005)

We need to be able to specify maximum task storage on a transaction definition to prevent an application from acquiring too much storage by GETMAINs and causing the region to go Short on Storage.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

import and export Carma views

be able to export and import carma - endevor views so that I can save off and import into a different work space.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Unique DFHPLT prefix (GSE requirement DBCICS96001)

It should be possible to define a default prefix for all macro generated tables in a CICS region. This is not possible because both initialisation and shutdown PLT are prefixed with DFHPLT. This means that you have to use different suffix for PLTP...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

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