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Change monitoring way of elapsed and CPU in policies

Currently, when using policies, calculation of CPU and Elapsed times are done between EXEC CICS commands. So, if previous EXEC CICS never completes, rules are not triggered if CPU or Elapsed are exceeded. It should be interesting to monitor these ...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Exploit 64-bit addressing mode in zWS

We would like to request the implementation of 64-bit addressing mode for zWS to avoid potential S878 storage-related abends. Our current production zWS controller has a very large and complex batch schedule with a high frequency rate of updates. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Support JXH and JXLE for exit t the beginning of a loop

Support JXH and JXLE for, e.g., ASMEXIT, DO WHILE, DOEXIT, IF, for testing loop termination at the beginning.
3 months ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 5 Not under consideration

COBOL DISPLAY prefixed by program-id - compile option

If COBOL developers make DISPLAY in CICS and do not ensure that the DISPLAY-text contains a unique identifier, it can be very difficult to find the programs, that make the DISPLAYs and a lot of parallel DISPLAYs can be a serious performance proble...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

Provide API Name in addition to field name for GMOMW0005E / GMOMW0021E error in zOS Connect

Currently we are debugging a lot of GMOMW0005E errors and they only provide the field name that encountered the error. Initially these were easy to debug but now that the environment is growing at a rapid pace it is near impossible as the error on...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Create "Balance" algorithm for CPSM routing

This algorithm can be a new algorithm, or an enhancement to the QUEUE algorithm, in which CPU utilization information can be considered. Avoiding disasters in existing algorithms, we prefer that a new one should be created. This feature can be ena...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE - Allow enablement of TRACE at individual API provider/requester level

To capture TRACE on-demand, Today it is possible only to enable at Server instance level. In Larger Enterprises z/OS Connect EE is utilized as a Shared entity in a SYSPLEX which can be shared my many applications. So, to trace a particular applica...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 6 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect should provide appropriate HTTP error codes on errors within z/OS Connect or backend systems

Since a short time it is now possible to define HTTP return codes in z/OS Connect depending on codes the application sends back its response message, but in error Scenarios z/OS Connect still doesn't provide an appropriate HTTP error code. Instead...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Not under consideration

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3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Integration Test Builder for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Update EXCI to set the return code (R15) at termination

EXCI leaves an unpredictable residual value in Register 15 on exit, which defies all expectations and good coding practices. This behavior is documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=considerations-setting-return-code-r15-ter...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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