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VSAM cluster sharing within a HAO component

The VSAM cluster - especially the TDB and the NAM clusters - need a functionality to be shared between the STC. Nowadays the VSAM clusters have to be synchronized manually or by the HAO component. When there are a lot of instances in a Generic Res...
over 8 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic update capability to WLMSPEC

Currently any change to a WLMSPEC requires that all AORS and TORS in the workload be brought down at the same time, and that is an issue when we are trying to maintain 24x7 availability.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Dynamically increase the queue block, long and short message queue datasets

There should be a possibillity to switch the queue block, long and short message queue datasets to a bigger pre allocated DS without shutting down IMS.I could imagine to issue the switch via command similar to the 'SWITCH xxx' command. The command...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

AMODE64 as AMODE 31 is everywhere in the bowels of CICS, and the product would need almost a complete rewrite to support AMODE 64 COBOL.

To support Above the BAR storage allocations. COBOL supports this, but CICS does not.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Single FTP session to allow MFA

In the FTP perspective, use only one FTP session. This will allow our multi factor authentication MFA. From the sniffer/Wireshark, we see the first session authenticate, but the second fails because the same token pin is presented a second time. T...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Not under consideration

Auto Refresh Outline View on changes

Currently the "outline view" is updated only after saving a file. We would like to get it updated on each change to section names or inserting/deleting sections prior saving the file.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Allow INITPARMs to be specified on PLT entry; allow > 60 characters

Allow an INITPARM string to be specified on the DFHPLT TYPE=ENTRY card for the program it is to be associated with. This is to accomplish three principal objectives: (1) Place the INITPARM text in the same parmlib member as the associated program ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Implement CEDA CHECK (e.g. for LIST) to ensure CICS region starts properly

Implement the CEDA CHECK option in CICS Explorer (see http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r2/topic/com.ibm.cics.ts.resourcedefinition.doc/ceda/commands/dfha4_check.html) to allow for example checking LISTs for consistency
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Editor should show bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead of scrolling and trying to notice.

Editor unused variable showed as little color on vertical screen which difficult to view. These are very small not easy to read or notice by developer, could you add result window bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Editor should show bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead of scrolling and trying to notice.

Editor unused variable showed as little color on vertical screen which difficult to view. These are very small not easy to read or notice by developer, could you add result window bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

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