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APA support to summarize observation data over multiple addresspaces

Most customers do observations for multiple regions at once (since they do not know in what region applications will be schedules. To be able to diagnose problems, they need the observation values for the full application / middle ware regions. Th...
over 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhance z/OS Connect Admin Services for CICS Service Provider

The z/OS Connect Admin services call for a CICS Service Provider only responds with the CICS Program name that was defined in the Service. I would like the CICS Tran id and Connection Reference that were specified when the Service was created to a...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support Team (Group) field.

This request is to include a field for Product Support Group, that can be updated by the client (end user) via the Web User Interface, with the data retained in the client’s database repository. This field is updateable by clients and can be used ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Delivered

TPIPE Checkpoint Statistics

We would like to have a statistics checkpoint record with TPIPE information, like the number of TPIPEs at the time of the checkpoint (global and per tmember), high water mark, etc.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Save contents of CICS resource view in a folder

The ability to SAVE the select contents of a resource view (Operations or Definition) to a selected folder. We should be able to select the name and the folder. Also, create a new folder if required.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Requesting RDz v9.x to support Enterprise COBOL v5.1

Our application developers use Rational Developer for System z ("RDz") to generate Web Service programs for CICS. We are implementing the Enterprise COBOL v5.1 compiler in order to exploit the new and faster machine instructions on the zEnterprise...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 6 Delivered

Clean up of OTMA orphaned YTIBS

A transaction started via a message switch under OTMA which replies to the IOPCB may still leave orphaned YTIB storage in IMS. This effectively causes a storage creep and requires an IMS recycle to fix.This request is that IMS should periodically ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

CICS Web Services should support Unicode (UTF-16)

When using CICS web services, the default translation code page is UTF-8 from localccsid. This customer has user data in a DB2 sub-system stored in UTF-16. To process this data using CICS web services, they must read the DB2 tables and translate f...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Add customizable syntax highlighting for additional types in IDz

We like to have an option to add own customized syntax highlighting schemes for specific languages without any. More current versions of Eclipse (starting with Photon 4.8) include e.g. the Generic Text Editor which has such option on-board so we d...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Delivered

Analyzing COBOL-Copybooks used via COPY ? REPLACING

When analyzing the usage of a variable, which is declared in an include with a placeholder and is used in the program with the help of Copy .. Replacing, it is important to recognize the name of the include.Currently, when using the variable, the ...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 3 Delivered

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