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ctg support for OSGI bundles

We want to be able to use ctg from 3rd party osgi container. 1. Using JCA APIs to configure ctg connection pools2. Allow CICS resources to participate in XA transactions.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Modify DSP to match FCH member processing

Have two FM Batch jobs, one using FCH and the other using DSP. There are multiple input PDS libraries concatenated together resulting in multiple occurances of the same member names. FCH will find/process all occurances of the same member while DS...
almost 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Debug Tool DTCN TCPIP matching for EZA Sockets in CICS

We need to be able to use DTCN to match on IP address for programs running under tasks initiated from EZA Sockets. Currently we can only use IP matching for tasks associated with a TCPIP Service.
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

RFE for CICS CM Package List by Status

In our CSD migration process, we have setup automation to approve, ready, and migrate packages as the package moves from environment to environment. A challenge has been in the use of the batch APIs to extract information on packages that are read...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS/VR 5.1 needs to coexist with prior versions

At present, CICS/VR 5.1 cannot coexist with prior versions on the same SYSPLEX. CICS/VR 4.2 cannot process all of the backout/forward recovery log records created by 5.1, and vice versa. This incompatibility forces customers to implement 5.1 on ev...
almost 11 years ago in CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

TABR BDI

Banca d'Italia is involved in a Computer Association migration, TABR is used to replace some CA Vantage functionalities. Customer needs to have a report that shows the list of datasets that are not subject to policy (backup or archive). This kind ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Delivered

Check qualified use of structure attributes in a new way

Actually we can declare structures with the attribute SUPPRESS(LAXQUAL).As a result of the compiler option RULES(NOLAXQUERY(STRICT|LOOSE) the compiler doesn't check qualified use of this structure attributes.Any unqualified use of other structure ...
almost 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

MDBG file to contain all sources including header files

Add an option to capture all sources to the MDBG file to encourage users to adopt the one-step compile approach for compiling C programs that contain embedded SQL, CICS commands, EXEC SQL INCLUDE and header file includes.
almost 11 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 4 Delivered

z/OS RDz v9.0 Java v7.0 64-bit support needed

In order to address an issue with memory constraints with RDz v9.0, Java v7.0 64-bit was needed.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Configurable limit to array positions shown in debug

When you are using Debug Tool from RDz, it's often a problem when inspecting an program structure containing arrays. For instance when expanding the array (if the array is large enough) it will occupy the entire screen in the vertical direction.Th...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Delivered