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Enable Splunk as a destination for CICS/PA

Enable CICS/PA reporting to be sent to Splunk
almost 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Enhance SMF 123.1 for API requester to write asserted ID

Currently the header zCEE-ApiRequester-AssertedId is always sent by the stub to z/OS Connect and it's value should be written to SMF 123.1 records for audit purposes.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Create internal property group containing compiler options used to produce

Visual debugging not working for PL/I in IDz https://l2l3-cmn-rtc.ratl.swg.usma.ibm.com:9443/ccm/web/projects/Rational%20Escalation#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=96097*******************what we need is to get compiler option and...
almost 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enable generate action for minor/simple maintanance on MCM

I would like to have a simple generate action in MCM to activate PTF's in the running environment of OMEGAMON without going through the whole procedure of MCM or PARMGEN.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide CICS Stats to show peak Threads used for JVM

The RDO definition for a JVM includes the maximum number of threads. CICS Explorer and DFHSTUP always show all Threads in use. I'd like to see the actual number of threads used so we know if the number defined is appropriate. DFHSTUP output JVMSER...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Support for Cobol Copybooks with Redefine Clause

Currently most of the core banking applications on mainframe have Cobol copybooks with redefine clause. Due to product limitation this will limit exposing API's for some of the key services.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Notifications or News from any user or admin

Provide a way for an "administrator" to issue messages to all users currently logged on to RSE server or post News that will be pushed to users as they connect to RSE
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Delivered

Accept SYSOPTF without PARM=OPTFILE

The Parameter File SYSOPTF is only used, when PARM=OPTFILE is specified. If no PARM is given, the Existence of SYSOPTF should be checked and (only if existing) used.
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Delivered

Add Control-M scheduler support in IBM Application Discovery

Currently, IBM Application Discovery can only support schedulers for IWS/TWS, A-Auto & CA-7 but not Control-M. Many customers who are interested in ADDI are using Control-M. It would be great if the product can support Control-M so that custom...

Change default cursor location .

When I press the escape key (which is usually an ATTN key) while inside a session, then the cursor will default to the first session on the main menu. In a previous version ( 1.4.7) the cursor was always positioned on the current session when re...
almost 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered