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"Cancel button" when WUI hangs with 'BUSY' message.

Findings using the WUI and issuing a query which sends a request to a MAS that is experiencing problems such as MXT, SOS, or other severe problems will cause the WUI to hang until the request times out. Despite the parameters that let to determine...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow buffered tape writes to be queued in multiple 32K tape buffers

Our system has several applications that use TOUTC to write data to a buffered tape, and must therefore issue a WAITC. Normally this is not an issue as the data is simply moved from the application core to the tape buffer, however if the tape driv...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

RDz Software Analyzer Enhancements

In Software Analyzer Results under COBOL or PL/I Review tabs, provide ability to:1. Hover or right-click over violation2. Display a detailed description of the rule 3. Display "Bad Coding Example"4. Display "Good Coding Example" Also on a side not...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Not under consideration

Enable in RDz Enhanced Edit (Quick Edit) for CA Endevor to view to execute remote syntax check on sources.

Enable in Rational Developer for System z Enhanced Edit (Quick Edit) for CA Endevor to view to execute remote syntax check on sources. Currently, for Enhanced Edit (Quick Edit) & Remote Syntax check this functionality has not been implemented....
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

XRMIOUT exit invoked because of an EXEC DLI command issued by a program that was Cobol called needs a way to determine RSA

The situation: 1) The Initial Program of a CICS transaction, or a program that was invoked by EXEC CICS LINK or EXEC CICS XCTL, does a Cobol Call to invoke a ProgramB.2) This ProgramB does an EXEC DLI call.3) There is a Global User Exit program th...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Enhancements to the XA Resiliency feature

The XA resiliancy feature was introduced in TXSeries v6.2 to increase the up-time of TXSeries regions in the event of XA errors caused by resource manager failures. This feature mandates applications to handle resource specific errors. This can be...
over 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

HALDB ALTER for CI change only

V13 HALDB ALTER. I would like to be able to use the HALDB ALTER to change the DB CI size without having to make a DBD change as well. This will allow for DB tuning without down time for the application.
over 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

Allow CEA taking operlog snapshot asynchronously

The description for MR0115131314. It opened in FITS due to 68397,000, 738 PMR.In the current design, CEA was not able to create the operlog snapshot for the duration specified in CEAPRMxx (default is 30 minutes) quickly enough, and the request tim...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Debugging using CADB is allowed for only one user at a time in TXSeries

Currently TXSeries restricts multiple users to debug simultaneously using CADB transaction. Only one user can debug at a time. This is a pain point for customer because it creates a huge bottle neck in their application development environment. Cu...
over 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

When in jes output queue - need to have hot links

When I open up a JES output queue I have the JOB as it was run. Many times I have issues or want to look things up. This is usually during testing or if a job abends. I would like to be able to highlight a DSN and open, browse or view the file whi...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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