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Message after CICS has recovered last UOW during Emergency Restart

Generate a new DFHRMxxxx message that indicates that emergency restart has completed with the status of completed UOWs and a count of UOWs still indoubt. Part two of this RFE would provide a restart option that tells CICS to shutdown after emergen...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

No NULL value columns for fields, which according to the WHERE clause conditions can't exist in the SQL result

IMS databases can have multiple different layouts on the same segment. Before accessing such a segment using SQL these different layouts need to be defined with a DFSMAP/DFSCASE mapping definition, which describes to IMS which layout needs to be u...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 2 Delivered

Use constants within structure

it might be good to allow the VALUE attribute in structures that did not consist solely of fields with the VALUE attribute. So allow dcl 1 mystr, 2 ..., 2 sex char(1), 3 male char(1) value('M'), 3 female char(1) value('F'), 2 ... if mystr.sex = my...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

MQ support when called from subroutine

Please enhance ADDI to support MQ when variables involved in MQ statement are declared and resolved in one program and MQ calls is made from another program
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

Suppress generating JSON tags for unused fields

The linkable DFHJSON support for language structures (DFHLS2JS) generates a JSON tag for every field, whether it has a value or not. We have copybook structures with hundreds of fields, many of which are not populated, yet DFHJSON generates a blan...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

IMS should support a QBUFMAX specification greater than 9999.

Currently the maximum value that can be specified for the QBUFMAX Startup parameter (maximum number of message queue buffers for the queue pool) is 9999. Customer could have the need to both limit the maximum number of Buffers by coding QBUFMAX, t...
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 4 Delivered

Improve Data Set Commander batch processing

The IBM Dataset Commander has a batch function built with the DSCBAT command. However, the usability can be improved significantly. See below.
over 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

CL/SuperSession Trace multiuser in SMF back to real userid

When you have a multiuser token in the SMF data in the USER field (ie +AAAAAAB), there is no way to trace it back to the real userid. This is a problem for auditing usage as the data is not usable for multiusers beyond the first signon.
over 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Simplify rectangular block copy-paste in the COBOL editor

Currently, the COBOL editor allows the user to copy-paste a rectangular blocks of text. The user can activate the "block selection mode", then select a rectangular block and then copy it in the editor's clipboard. The issue comes when the user wan...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

API mapping enhanced mapping: multi-field functions

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include net-new fields from multi-field functions
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

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