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New CICS Explorer View for region SIT parameters

I am forever right mouse clicking on the regions view to obtain the combined SIT options for a region. Then comparing this with another region. It would be good to have a view of its own for region SIT parameters. This would allow us to filter and...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Remove obsolete CMAS from CICSPlex

Remove obsolete CMAS from storage in CICSPlex scope.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to add Menu Manager written functions to the "tool bar" at the top

Possibility to add Menu Manager written functions to the "tool bar" at the top .And to the favorit "bar"
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

zSort Support for zWS

Allow usage of the hardware accelerated approach to sorting by z/OS Workload Scheduler (zWS) to take advantage of the IBM Integrated Accelerator for Z Sort. The aim will be to reduce the CPU costs and improve the elapsed time for eligible batch wo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect - gRPC support

z/OS Connect supports the creation/consumption of RESTful APIs. As several customers use gRPC as their internal intercommunication protocol, it would be helpful to have that support also in z/OS Connect.
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

SSRANGE suboption to check for a modified length resulting in a negative length

A new SSRANGE suboption is needed that should be useable also in production.This suboption should create extra checking code only if a "modified reference" (that modifies the default length of a variable) involves a variable value. In this case th...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

zOSConnect - Generating data format for integer

Hello,In zOSConnect toolkit 3.0.6.10, we have noted that for a data defined in PIC 9(n) in the copybook the generated data in swagger is like below :"contract_number" : {"type" : "integer","minimum" : 0,"maximum" : 99999999999999} ‎Without data fo...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CPSM Monitoring Tasks Threadsafe - CONCURRENCY(REQUIRED)

Enable the CPSM Monitoring Tasks to run as Threadsafe; running on an Open TCB, CONCURRENCY(REQUIRED). Currently, they run on the QR TCB; and the sampling and occupancy of the QR seems significant, impacting the normal business transaction applicat...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of Code Review in z/OS batch mode

Performance of Code Review in Batch needs to be improved. Today the performance is not sufficient. Each time a new JVM is started. When it is running as part of the build it is critical to ensure throughput and cpu consumption.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

When adding internal processor with EQQAMOSL, the UI should allow searching by job name

When adding internal processor with EQQAMOSL, the UI should allow searching by job name Currently, it only allow operation number to be search which is really impractical.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration