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Provide monitoring data for current number of tasks in TRANCLASS at task attach

CICS provides the performance class monitoring CURTASKS field (id 434) in the DFHTASK group. This field records the number of tasks inside the system at the time of task attach, which is very helpful when understanding retrospectively how rapidly ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Full ARRAY and STRUCT support in IMS Database Service Provider

We require IMS Database Service Provider services to support complex segments with (non-nested) ARRAY fields with many instances and many values per instance (which may be of different data types), using un-flattened array representation, with aut...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Add a folder under "Task History Detail" panel (E3279UI) for displaying the transaction tracking information. Fields are from performance data group DFHCICS. Please the attached file for details.

It will help identifying the tracking information of the task in terms of problem determination, performance monitoring and tuning.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Top Down Workflow

We have a pure top down approach for zos / connect This means we have a yaml or json file with the api definition. Out of this definition zconbt should create structures and members. The developer should just code the empty gaps. zconbt should be ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Display expiration date for datasets

Hi, we are missing a way to display the expiration date. Since we often add an expiration date to files, it would be nice to display this in the IDz as well. Please display this attribute in at least one of these views - Properties - Remote System...
10 months ago in z/OS Explorer 2 Delivered

Newcopy feature for CICS Application Bundles(OSGI) needed

When making changes to a Java Application within an OSGI Bundle you know need to disable, discard and re-install the CICS bundle for the new changes to become active. Since our developer will be making these changes and we don't want to give them ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 12 Delivered

MOVE option is not available in RDz

MOVE option is not available
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Ability to set the current timestamp into a request z/OS Connect sends to a backend system

A lot of input messages for transactions contain a timestamp telling the transaction program when an input message has been sent by a distributed application or by a host system of a business partner. For instance application-based transaction exp...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support long running transactions in zAPM Connect

zAPM Connect needs to support the collection of statistics at Syncpoint intervals instead of only at the end of a unit of work or transactions.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

Ability to add ZIIP when deploying Instances

Ability to add ZIIP Processor during provissionning
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

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