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CICS Explorer ability GLUE Disable / Enable or TRUE

To new copy a program; need to Disable and Enable in the new copy process; presently do it this way: CECI DISABLE PROG(U8D1XMEO) EXITALL <<--can't be done in Explorer CECI SET PROGRAM(U8D1XMEO) NEWCOPY <<-can be done in Explorer CECI...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

PSB/DBD fallback using IMS catalog versioned objects

DBD/PSB objects fallback to use IMS catalog rather than PSBGEN/DBDGEN/catalog ACBGEN/IMPORT using backed up sources.
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 1 Not under consideration

Terminology consistency in GDPS BPCPDEFS panel

Make terminology used on panel VPCPDEFS consistent with terminology used in panel VPCPFLFZ. On Panel VPCPFLFX the column IplType has a value of Normal and Abnormal to refer to the LPAR definitions specified in the GEODOMAINS UET. When the operator...
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Move EPCB and CSAPSB Pool above the 64-bit bar

Mizuho-bank is now designing new account system and experiencing ECSA shortage.The main contributing factors are EPCB and CSAPSB pools, despite the efforts of IMS technical team to shrink each PSB size (cutting off the DBPCBs) and reduce IFP regio...
almost 9 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

IDz Syntax Check Facility with Preprocessor

We set up the Syntax Check Facility as described in knowledge Center. The remote error lists is populated with Compiler Messages, but Points to a remote file. We excpect the link to the file in the local z- Component Project. We use a preprocessin...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Ability to configure (remove) subsystems in AD Analyze Client operations

Ability to configure a template, or list of required subsystems, so that only required subsystem functions are displayed.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for MQ Topics and Subscriptions

RFE for the support of MQ topics and subscriptions
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

'Find' capability in generated reports

Capability to have a 'Find' operation in the Application Discovery generated reports.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

COBOL code quality rules should use the preprocessor

The COBOL code quality rules should check within the code generated by the preprocessor. At the moment (Version 9.1) the preprocessor statements are ignored. They are not checked at all. Please check the COBOL code generated by the preprocessor fo...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Multiple CPSM ESSS Subsystems on one LPAR

2 separate CICSPlexes are connected to separate CMAS on the same LPAR. Each CICSPlex and CMAS respresents a separate Environment such as development and maintenance Environment. Each CMAS should have his own ESSS Subsystem on the same LPAR. So the...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration