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Program Type in results should be accurate

If you specify DB2 or IMS and run the testcase, the zUnit results editor always shows BTCH, meaning the options DB2 or IMS which you chose in the generation phase are not reflected in the results
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

Provide Documentation on Very Large Tables and their usage

Need a better understand of what these very large tables, such as the DB2_ENDUSER_* tables, are used for given they use 1000s of Cyls of dasd. With a better understanding of usage customer can decide if the tables are even needed. And drop them if...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Separate out the IDAA Addition from the DB2 Component

Most customers don't have IDAA installed and the addition of this feature is unnecessary unless requested. Adding in the tables for it is just a waste of resources, and dasd.
almost 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Documentation on Tables For Which No Reports exist and their Usage

It would like with the management of the Data Base and dasd usage, and purge of the data.
almost 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

JVMServer (OSGI) log file rotation policy for zFs output files

As our production Cics regions are restarted once a week, the JVMServer zFs output log files grow very large in size (upto 1 GB). It is quite a challenge to load such large files in editor/viewer and analyze or search for valid information. Logfil...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add filter in Build Client and Build Configuration

We would have to add a filter in AD Build Client (when the pop-up opens) and AD Build Configuration in order to find our projects in the list more quickly.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Server 5.4 Documentation for Async Service Domain

Fault analysis software like SmartScope, AbendAid and Fault Analyzer require an understanding of the various control block, anchors and domains when post processing system failures (SVC Dumps). APIs and SPIs are not available when analyzing SVC Du...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

64 bit COBOL for CICS

We would like z/OS CICS Transaction Server to support 64 bit COBOL applications. My understanding is that a 64 bit COBOL compiler is currently not available. But hopefully this RFE will expedite the process of getting all the pieces in place so th...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 10 Not under consideration

CICS as CICS Explorer Server

CICS being a Top Tier Web Server; we would like to utilize CICS as the WEB Server to Deploy the CICS Explorer Product as the WebStart implementation. This will consolidate the support of CICS Explorer within the CICS Technical Support area; versio...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Individual setting of the content of //SYSJAVA

When you compile a COBOL class definition, a Java source program that contains a class definition that corresponds to the COBOL class definition is generated in addition to the object file. We need an option to interact with the output in SYSJAVA ...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

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