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Ability to account the CPU consumption for RLS access after migration to threadsafe.

After the programs were migrated to threadsafe, the CPU usage by the accesses to the RLS were removed from the SMF110 field, RLSCPUT (now is zero) and were added to the USRCPUT field, making the customer not able to know how much CPU time was cons...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Unable to pass headers for OAUTH2 apiRequester

Customer has an api requestor that is configured to use oauth2 but the JWT provider requires a scope parm and a http header Client-Application be sent. Looking to do this in the server.xml.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 6 Not under consideration

Support for DB2Entries in CICS Bundles

We are able to create Transactions in our cics bundle but because we always create a db2entry together with the transcation we can't really use cics bundles to define our application because we can't create db2entries in the cics bundle
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

CL/SUPERSESSION F3/F12 ADM panels

When using the KLSADME1 Administrator Menu for any of the three options available the customer is only allowed to use F12 to “Cancel” from the panel at all levels beyond the initial panel. Option 1 - KLSSAP11 Profile Selection MenuOption 2 - KLSAL...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS CSD - Autoinstalled programs

Building the AD repository for a project does not support CICS Autoinstalled programs
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Utilize user credentials when recording test cases in CICS instead of CICS user credentials

Current process requires RACF rule to permit CICS to store data at user level. This RACF rule or PERMIT would be mitigated if zUnit utilized user credentials. This would reduce customization steps on implementation.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

SIT Parmeter to perform a SSL rebuild command périodically

SIT parameter to generate a SSL perform rebuild command automatically
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Improve the loading performance in CICS IA

When loading a huge data array from VSAM affinity files into DB2 database affinity tables, CIUAFFLD job takes long time to be processed.
about 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism for setting BZUEXTRA with location of loadlib dataset (PDS) containing business load module

I am opening this RFE on behalf of customer (THE PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP) to improve zUnit automation and generation process. Currently, zUnit does not provide an easy method for specifying the loadlib dataset (PDS) containing the test target...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration