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RDz support for Mac

Currently, RDz runs on a Windows machine and Linux (I believe). I would like to see RDz (and all plug-ins) like DataStudio, IA, etc. run on a Mac machine.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

New Policy to cancel tasks that use very large containers

It would be good if a policy could detect (and possibly purge) the tasks that use larger containers of a specified size as it is possible to do with those that occupy more than xGb of User or Shared GDSA
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Please add views for the FEPI Operations Tables

Hello, The WUI provides views for the FEPI Operations tables: FEPIPOOL, FEPIPROP, FEPICONN, FEPINODE, and FEPITRGT. Our shop uses FEPI and we want to see these views represented in the CICS Explorer for ease of administration.
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Add support for GDG processing to DCP and MVSCMD commands in zoau

We cannot copy from USS File system to SEQ GDG using DCP or MVSCMD with the (+1) coded DCP Command Fails -bash-4.3$ dcp /bac/var/lib/devops/svcid/zsuserid/joblist 'ZSUSERID.TESTGDG(+1)' 17.47.08 STC00338 IEC034I INCONSISTENT RECORD FORMATS F AND V...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 4 Delivered

Open CICS - TCPIPS automatically after a TCP/IP restart

CICS - TCPIPS goes to closed state if any outage in TCP/IP, but it does not open automatically when the TCP/IP is back. We have to manually open the TCPIPS in CICS using CEMT. Can the CICS-TCPIPS set to open state as automatic when the TCPIP ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

IDz. Better distribution of UserBuild and Local Property Groups configs.

Currently in IDz, the configurations of DBB UserBuild and the Local Property Groups can not be distributed to the developers via P2C, so they would need to set those configuraitons manually. Performing this configuration is out of the scope of the...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

Provide capability or a parm that the users of HFPMAIN0 TUNE function can use to specify the size of the work dataset

There were instances where processing a DEDB can get a B37 abend for the workfiles that the HFPMAIN0 TUNE utility uses in the course of its execution. This requires manually coding the DD cards which could be numerous depending on how many areas a...
about 1 year ago in IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS / Fast Path Advanced Tools 2 Delivered

Provide ability to 'smartly' purge transactions performing 'must complete' activity

Customer has a large environment with many thousands of DB2 transactions per minute, and relies upon vendor monitoring software to effectively handle the purging of transactions that exceed criteria (TMON in this case, but this would apply to Omeg...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Passphrase support for HWSSMPL1 (connect API)

HWSSMPL1 does not support passphrase and we need passphrase support for HWSSMPL1. One of our major application uses connect API which use HWSSMPL1 and we are looking at strengthening password using passphrase.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 4 Delivered

Reduce and/or eliminate CICS statistics with zero use count

Can there be a toggle to suppress cutting statistics records if there is no activity? Deciding which to suppress could be different for different records and different customers, so I'm asking for something that I'm not sure there is a good (easy)...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

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