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Include CA5F in mainstream code

Functionality in CA5F should be migrated and included in the main CICS TG daemon.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 4 Delivered

Request monitoring exits to permit optional read-only access to channel payload data

Currently monitoring exits only provide access to the data present within a commarea.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 5 Delivered

CICS TS retries zFS errors that are temporary

Improve CICS TS handling of retryable file request errors. Currently, when a zFS file is requested, and USS returns an error, CICS reports a severe error DFHDH0002. Many errors are for "not authorized" and "not found" conditions, which are permane...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

On RD/z 8.5, customers want to print the output (marked red or green) executing "code coverage" function.

On RD/z 8.5, customers want to print the output (marked red or green) executing "code coverage" function. It is difficult that code coverage won't finish 100% only one time.Usually, code coverage will execute many times until finished.So, it must ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Update DFHWB0732 explaination

DFHWB0732 message explanation in the infocenter updated to indicate that the message can be issued when a non-SSL message is sent to an SSL TCPIPSERVICE.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 7 Delivered

Change cache algorithm to manage XML-converters in ICON

The ICON parameter MAXCVRT to set cache size of XML-converters is fine. What is not optimal is the algorithm used to unload/load XML-converters if the cache is full. current algorithm: Due to some discussions with IBM employees the less used conve...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

Allow APA to monitor the DDF address space with it does not follow the standard naming <SSID>DIST

We need that APA is able to monitor a DDF address space that can have a different name than the standard <SSID>DIST.
almost 12 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Remove unneeded XML processing (i.e. parsing/marshalling) in SGW to reduce cpu usage and to improve performance

During SOAP request and response handling SGW parses and marshalles the whole SOAP-envelope what is mostly unneeded because SGW (more or less) just bypass the request/response to/from ICON. This XML processing takes not only a lot of cpu time but ...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

HLL/WB Windows8 Support

HLL/WB to support Windows8. Developer's workstations are moving to Winodws8, and HLL/WB should support the new platform in a timely fashion.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Delivered

Impure field declaration for xml_element_mapped and xml_attribute_mapped in generated PLI XML-converter

Context: RDz 8.5.1, xsebatch, wsdl first approach. The generated PLI XML-converter declares the fields xml_attribute_mapped and xml_element_mapped. Currently the declaration type is bin(1) but should be bit(1).
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered