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EXCI should support CHANNEL and CONTAINER

Currently, EXCI only supports COMMAREA. This limits applications to 32kB of data. CHANNEL /CONTAINER allow to use more than this limit and help to structure the data.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered

Open a new zOS Unix shell on double-click action.

The z/OS UNIX Shell in the Remote Systems View can only be launched by selecting the submenu item "Launch Shell". For better use it would be adventagious if this could be accomplished with a simple double click.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer 2 Delivered

Visibility to current CPU use by user in RSED address space

From PMR TS003198624 (the new format is not allowed in the PMR field.) With TSO, CICS, and Batch, I have visibility to see detail about TSO logons, CICS transactions, and batch jobs with our ASG-TMON monitors or other monitoring solution. Every no...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 2 Delivered

Provide a token which will allow correlation of a z/OS Connect request and the work executed in the related z/OS subsystem(s)

In order to build a complete picture of a transaction in a z/OS Connect environment there must be a mechanism which will allow the user to understand the relationship between a z/OS Connect request and the work that's executed on behalf of the req...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Original Client Certificate Userid in CICS Monitoring Record

When a HTTP request, running in CICS Liberty, is authenticated by a client certificate the CICS monitoring record does not contain the correct userid. That does not affect runtime operation of the user task, but the task will be associated with th...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

GDPS and LCP reporting. More functions needed

It would be great if we could use sort on the VPCPLCS3 panel in GDPS. Maybe in combination with the filter command. Ie a command like this:filter used(80,gt) sorted descending
over 3 years ago in GDPS 2 Delivered

Passphrase support for Rational Business Developer

Passphrase to generate the EGL source to COBOL is not supported using RBD 9.6
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Delivered

Fault Analyser : Retrieve Cobol Special Register values in Dump

It would be very useful to have the Cobol Register value included in the Fault Analyzer Dump.In a Cobol Dump, when value contained in Cobol Special Register are involved in the cause of the abend, there's currently no way to find them in the Fault...
over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

CICS Preprocessor LIB option

The CICS preprocessor creates required COBOL Compiler Options including the LIB command. The LIB option is no longer supported with COBOL 5 and 6. Please create a CICS('cobol5') option which can be included in COBOL Compiler Option directives to m...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Change description of submenus

Hello, we want to change the description of the submenus. Can you help?
5 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered