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The term block number is confusing on CICS VR Logstreamcopy and Log of Log scan reports

The report at the end of a CICS VR LogStream copy job and a Log of Log scan report includes FIRST BLOCK NUMBER and LAST BLOCK NUMBER copied or read. This is confusing as the number appears to be an address rather than a number as is not sequential.
almost 13 years ago in CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

TCB Switch for Java applications with each access to DB2

In the past we invested a lot of work to get our Assembler and COBOL applications threadsafe. As a consequence we avoid a lot of TCB switches between the QR TCB and the L8 TCB. This saves a lot of CPU and improves the response time. With Java, in ...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Change CICS IPIC related transactions(CI**) with TASKDATAKey(CICS)

CICS IPIC should keep connectivity, and any user bad applications should not overlay the storage of CICS IPIC's long running tasks.
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Ability to specify a template for a Job Card with the Endevor plugin

The CA Endevor API has a Submit Package action and this is what we use. CA Endevor is the one that requires the jobcards and CA Endevor uses them to submit the job. With the batch support for the element actions, the RDz Endevor RAM takes the temp...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Delivered

Endevor - Give us a quick edit like processing

In carma - endevor - we select a module and there are two many steps to go through to do the updates. In quick edit it is simple. I don't really care if it uses a PDS, that is great, but the steps need to be redused.
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Support concatenation of WS Bind file directories on WSDIR Pipeline Definition

Modify CICS to support the concatenation of WS Bind file directories on the WSDIR parameter of a PIPELINE resource definition. Each directory would be separated by colon. The EXEC CICS PERFORM PIPELINE(name) SCAN command would also require modific...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

EGL takes more than 30 seconds in LobLib.loadBlobFromFile

When trying to use the function LobLib.loadBlobFromFile it takes too much time. When files are large, like 30Mb, it can take more than 5 minutes. Calling java from EGL to load the file takes only 150ms I'm guessing the problem lies in the function...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Add a process for viewing called subroutines like we view copybooks from source code

Currently when viewing COBOL programs in RDz we have the ability to select and browse copybooks. I would like the same feature for viewing subroutines. When changing programs many times there is a need to view the subroutine source. Many times the...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Improve the performance in RDz client when displaying the contents of a "large" PDS "as a table" in the Rem. Sys. Details vw

From the RDz client Remote Systems view, a user has the option to display the contents of a PDS file "as a table". When doing this, each PDS member's "statistics" are displayed as a row in a table that is displayed in the Remote System Details vie...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

The ability to override a property group needs to be available at the dataset level

Currently the ability to override a property group exists at the member level only. When setting up PDS's on the mainframe they are normally set up by project. As such any property group overrides necessary for one module in the PDS is normally ne...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Delivered

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