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Improve the coverage of handling OOM errors to prevent Gateway daemon to be in an inconsistent state

If a Worker or ConnectionManager thread is active at the time the JVM throws an OutOfMemoryError, the thread terminates but other Gateway daemon threads fails to work and not processing requests. This behavior prevents failover from occurring as t...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

User Exits During DDL processing

During processing for a DEDB database member, a user exit will be needed to validate the vendor data in the catalog, and place it into an extension to Directory member. The exit should be able to add related SHISAM database(s) to the list of datab...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

Vendor Data in the Directory after DDL

Extended Operands and Vendor Data are in the Directory after using the Catalog Populate Utility to populate the Catalog and Directory from ACBLIB when using IMS Managed ACBs. When building PSBs and DMBs from the Catalog for DDL and the Catalog Dir...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

DFS3CATQ API with CONTCAT option

This is a curious case with the DFS3CATQ API that exists today when making separate calls to PENDING versus CURRENT IMS directories. I believe this error would not occur if we have the CONCAT option listed below. In this case we have HIDAM DBD tha...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Future consideration

Need additional error message for failed Btachrep Delete

Running a Batchrep job that specified a series of remove commands gave no messages at all for each command until an invalid use of a generic value with the next command then reporting it had failed because of a previous error. REMOVE PROGDEF NAME(...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

As a WA user, I would like to have an option to open a program call graph from a program file's node menu

From the Fiducia rep:- Clicking on menu doesn't allow to open a call graph, only view properties in Source File graph view- Will need design for this option flow (see number 4 in the list found in the attached subsequent restrictions due double ar...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Wazi Analyze 3 Future consideration

CTC inventory to cloud audit

CTC should support an audit function which can be used to identify and correct discrepancies that may result between the host based CTC inventory and the actual objects currently resident in a target cloud repository.
about 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Extend IDz editor for mass editing of Refactor function.

Hello In the IDz refactor option, there is a feature to remove noisy words. It works fine at each component level, but there is a future need to activate this noisy word for mass editing of multiple components at the same time. Please note this is...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Enhance CTC History processing to reprocess updated file

When CTC History processing selects a file to be uploaded it creates the cloud version and updates the catalog entry to CLOUD. When a subsequent scan processes it detects that the cloud based copy exists and skips the dataset. When the cloud datas...
about 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

IMS JDBC driver-equivalent SQL support for IMS Administration Tool ISPUFI feature

Currently the IMS Administration Tool ISPUFI feature is based on COBOL and the IMS native SQL support of IMS. This leads into many restrictions of the SQL functionality compared to what the IMS JDBC driver provides. Please enhance the IMS Administ...
about 6 years ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

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