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Immediate Error Reply for not connected TPIPEs

Currently if a TPIPE is not connected/not in RESUME TPIPE status, IMS waits for the timeout and comes back with an error.In case WebSphere is shut down this leads to stalls in IMS and lots of error tickets/research.It would be better if IMS detect...
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

default BLKSIZE = 27998 used in copy command in ID/z

Copying via ISPF asks for these options: Allocation Options: 1. Allocate using the attributes of: T03119A.somedata 2. Specify allocation attributes Use existing SMS attributes for option 1 So it‘s at users hands… When I read your documentat...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered

IBMZSecurity provider should accept "safkeyring" for Java 11 a la Java 8

According to the IBM Java 11 migration guide the IBMZSecurity provider does not support "safkeyring" as was done in Java 8 but instead uses "safkeyringjce". I find this problematic as it requires changes to configuration parameters in third-party ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 7 Delivered

Include application name and user ID doing MQPUTs and MQGETs in Omegamon

This RFE is to enable Omegamon to display application name and or user ID of the process which is performing the GET/PUT or both. We had enabled application stats for Omegamon but it does not show the applications name rather it either shows CICS ...
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Delivered

New BUILTIN for do an encrypted TEXT zone

We could have a BUILTIN that would encrypt a text zone. This new buitin would have two parameters, the text area and the encryption code like SHA-256. We would be integrated into PL1 and we would use the possibilities of the Mainframe. Currently ...
over 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Expand the Variable usage filter with Statement (e.g. MOVE in COBOL)

Currently, variable usage can only be determined by specifying the variable name and / or program name. The edited result in the tree must be opened so that the corresponding statement and thus the line is found.This becomes very complex, especial...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

Dynamically define log streams at z/OS Connect startup

In order to enable API Monitoring in OMEGAMON for JVM each z/OS connect has to have it's own logstream crated ( source ). This is very problematic if you are running a high number of instances. As an idea (suggested by IBM): Customers would update...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 2 Delivered

Job Confirmation Locate Job, Notify - Store in settings

Hi, Whenever I start a job via "submit to ...", a dialog appears where I can select "Locate Job", "Notify" or "OK". Most developers usually have a preference for one of these variants. But you always have to select one of them at job start. If you...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 4 Delivered

ICON SendOnly connection end without RC/RSN

FISC deployed the inter-banking SPEC to member bank base on ICON v2.x protocol.After migrated to IMS v13, some banks tested their socket program with ICON with FISC.They found when connection with SendOnly attribute assigned, ifduplicate clientID ...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

add an option in zUnit test case to reinitialize the WORKING-STORAGE SECTION before running each test entry

There is a zUnit limitation documented in IDz 14.1: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQ2R2_14.1.0/com.ibm.etools.rdz.zunit.doc/topics/r_limitations.html "zUnit does not initialize data item of WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. When running zUni...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

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