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Recovering from abend AICA under OTE TCB

An application can establish an abend handler by EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND, which gets control if any abend occurs, e.g. with abend code AICA. If running under OTE, an abend AICA cannot be intercepted by a user abend handler, i.e. the transaction ter...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

automatic recall of migrated datasets when using zUnit

zUnit creates some dediated files on mainframe, but if those datasets get migrated, zUnit is not able to recall these datasets automatically. Can this be provided ?
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

API call for preprocessor integration (Create a new AD-Project)

The automation of existing AD projects (current state) 1. Copy the artifacts in the subfolder of the AD projects2. Generation of the make-bat files3. Parallel execution of the make-bat files The preprocessor integration has to be done manually for...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Selection of individual files from a folder

So far, only the full path to the artifacts from which all files are imported can be specified via the API. Particularly in the case of overlapping storage structures, the artifacts must be copied before installation so that they are correctly imp...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Improve how TSA sees attended autotasks in Netview

For the commands listed below, TSA should treat autotasks started with *MASTER* and *INTERN* the same way it does with the ones started with *ANY* (attended autotask) Meaning that the default value for the VERIFY parameter should be WTOR. INGMOVEI...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Test Case result viewer should be codepage aware

If you are working with national codepages – ex IBM-278 for Swedish – then files in UTF8, that is for instance local files from Git can contain national characters. An example of this is Å. Å in IBM-278 has the same hex value (0x5b) as $ in US cod...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

PIF support for StepLevel Awarness

StepLevel Awareness (STEPINFO(YES)) brings benefits for operation problem solving via dialog - but in huge environments (millions of OPs) and a big disaster this way over dialog is not useful. So StepLevel Awareness should be provide a PIF interfa...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Compiler Directives

We do not like the inclusion of the compiler directives and the commenting out of non-included statements.We think all directives and non-included statements should be excluded from the source listing.
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

(TPFUG) Stop counting HSC closed by remote server as an error or provide a separate counter.

Today if a HSC endpoint is using persistent SSL sockets, and the remote server closes the socket it can cause the error count to be incremented. This is noticeable when the remote system implements an inactivity timeout on the socket, and there is...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add an option to allow APA to identify areas in foreign address spaces

In our shop, IMS and CICS run as JOBs, as opposed to Started tasks, and when capturing APAs for IMS Dependent Regions, areas that are in the IMS CTL or DLISAS cannot be identified by APA, showing as "Unresolved Addresses". Add a customizable optio...
about 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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