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INGQRY/AOCQRY was not available for MTR resources

INGQRY/ING$QRY delivers attributes of an APL resource.No INGQRY/AOCQRY was available for MTR resources.
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

The USERID should be always processed in upper case

Actually the USERID received from CTG requests, INBOUND Web services and the CESL/CESN transactions are kept in the regions as they are entered by the client application or in the terminal. We expect that the USERID value is always in upper case.
almost 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Continuation line for conditional compilation directives

A line of COBOL source code, limited to columns 8 to 72, to express a complex compilation condition, (>>if, >>when), with variables names that can be relatively long, is not sufficient.It is necessary to use artifices by using intermed...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) ZRTMC collected data needs to include RHT and event table data

ZRTMC deliverables include NVPC data and CDC data. However, this data provides no insight into issues that may be due to processing contention. Primary sources of ECB contention are:1) the RHT 2) CORHC/ENCQC 3) hopefully less likely, but the addit...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SYSTEM AUTOMATION TO BE ABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN PARENT TASKS THAT START A CHILD TASK WITH THE SAME NAME

There are applications should as WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) and Control-O, where the applications starts multiple secondary tasks with the same name, but different step name. This makes is difficult for automation to monitor and manage. Automa...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 5 Future consideration

Restart a failed shared SSL daemon process automatically?

Using the description from the CASE.jvfarmer (IBM)Jan 18, 2022, 08:42We have been working on diagnostic improvements to shared SSL, and have gotten some corruption detection in place, but we don't believe adding this code formally is the correct a...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API

CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API, not specific appsettings.json. We are using Custom Configuration Provided to read configurations from DB.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Change EQQN180W to EQQN180E and terminate NMM immediately

As documented in 65928,L6Q,000 and follow up internal PMR 77462,999,000 there is an easily recreatable way to compromise the integrity of the current plan by overwriting JT files which have not been archived. This needs to be prevented.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

INGLKUP to expand EXLUDE functions to multiple fields not just jobname

Currently INGLKUP uses UET INGLKUP EXCLUDE to compare against the D J,L command to see what jobs to exclude. Sometimes the standards are in the Step name or Procstep name and it would be nice if the exclude list was enhanced to allow the user to s...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

CTG6651E Unable to connect to the Gateway trying to connecting to TG via CICS Explorer

After migrated to CTGV9.1 we get an error CTG6651E Unable to connect to the Gateway trying to connecting to TG via CICS Explorer we are working with both TGV8.0 that V9.1 and problem occurs only with last version 9.1 seems that , working with prev...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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