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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

System Policy Rule for TSQueue Capacity

System Policy Rule to detect when TSQ AUX/Pool/Main is nearing threshold limits.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Support for system and JCL symbols in CSD/BAS resources.

(Please refer to RFE 61251 for additional information)Resources defined in CSD or bas should support the use of system and/or jcl symbols in their various parameters.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 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

Externalize the QRCPUT/QRDISPT ratio in a message and allow customization of threshold and how frequent the message comes out

There are a number of instances where problems are reported that turn out to be due to CPU starvation. Getting to that point though is a lengthy process, diagnosing the symptom, then having customer go back to their local performance group to revi...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

OMON Resource Limiting for Transaction CPU Time for less than 1 Second

Looking to see if a change can be made to allow Omegamon to do CICS Transaction Limiting (KILL LIMIT) for under 1 Second CPU Time. Seems that one second is the lowest value that can be set.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Improved channel usage with RUN TRANSID

We would like improved channel/storage management when using the RUN TRANSID function, to reduce the complexity of solutions using RUN TRANSID, and remove the chance of storage leaks in long running tasks.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Sort by discovered type

Add a feature to discover the file type via the content and sort the types into the proper folders for building.

Overwrite option in SAVE AS functionality

In menu " File > Save As ... ", we just want the possibility to overwrite an existing program in a PDS like in any IDE, maybe with a contextual check box.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Errors in rsecomm logs when debugger is not active

To avoid error messages in rsecomm logsit should be possible to set the debugger manager.jar as comment in the RSE configuration file: rsed.envvars:#CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$RSE_LIB/debug_miner.jar This, to avoid loading the debug manager and therefo...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 5 Delivered