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Use PgmModuleMap.txt for IMS TM besides JCL

There is now way to map IMS TM program to an differently named entrymodule in ADDI (besides decisions that can't be automated) when the Main and entry module has different names. This result in analyze chain being broken and part of the value of A...
3 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

EQQSERVER avoid 878 abend

The EQQSERVER uses storage below 16 MB. If we have a lot of jobs using EQQSERVER, we get an S878.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

OMEGAMON CICS Exit KOCOME00 always returns RC=0 for XMNOUT exit. It should return the previous exit program's RC if it's greater than the OMEGAMON exit's RC.

We have our own XMNOUT exit to suppress SMF110 records for CSMI and some exception records. Our exit works fine until we need to do OMEGAMON maintenance which does OMEG REMOVE and OMEG INIT. Normally the sequence of the XMNOUT program is KOCOME00 ...
4 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Prevent errors during migration to a new zWS release by allocating files via EQQPCSxx jobs to have the same sizes and other characteristics as in the previous release

Currently the provided jobs (tailored by EQQJOBS) like EQQPCS01 and EQQPCS02 allocate tiny files with default characteristics. However most customers make changes, like increasing the allocation of the files (more cylinders) or modifying the MAXRE...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

REGEX Function like in PL/I

Hi IBM, you've delivered the REGEX function in PL/I for the use of regular expressions in string searches. This would be nice in Cobol as intrinsic function too. Regards, Michael
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 12 Planned for future release

add SLES support for zD&T

Currently all of zD&T is only officially supported w/RHEL or Ubuntu - missing SLES. Clients who have standardized their IT on SLES, esp. in regulated industries, cannot run zD&T in a supported manner. It would be good to get SLES support f...
about 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Turn CICS trace, DFHTRAP, or Stg Violation checker ON or OFF based on CICS issuing a message or on matching a CICS Policy

Some customers will not run with CICS internal trace active all the time, especially in production. But there are times where we will need to turn CICS diagnostic features on to capture diagnostics. If the event being diagnosed is not easily repro...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

high availability and resiliency for messages sent via MQ descriptors (TYPE=MQSERIES)

We have got applications sending messages via CHNG/ISRT calls on MQ descriptors ( IBM MQ Parameter TYPE=MQSERIES ) Subparameter MQRTQMGR=mqmd_replytoqmgr specifies the MQMD_REPLYTOQMGR value. When operating within a PLEX-environment (MVS-Plex, ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Improvement of the flow job graph

Users of Application Discovery at SG need to be able to visualize the entire structure of a JCL by having information on the names of the steps, the programs used and the input and output files of each step. The flow job function seemed to be the ...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Identify and Terminate dropped connections to IMS

Currently if an IMS user loses their connection to the internet they remain logged in to IMS. This prevents them from logging back in. Currently the lowest ASOT and ALOT values of 10 do not provide the ability to immediately cleanup dropped sessio...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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