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CICS Task Policy to handle poison message and MQ Backouts

CICS Task Policy for MQ Backout Count handle Poison messages. Task Policy for MQ, if Backout Threshold exceeded in the MQMD put the message to the MQ Backout Queue Defined in the MQ Header and Abend Task. If no Backout Queue defined, the task beha...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

zIIP Enable VSAM/RLS processing

Similar to DRDA work coming into DB2, request to see a percentage of the CPU used to process VSAM/RLS requests from CICS enabled for zIIP offload eligibility.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CPSM Monitoring Tasks Threadsafe - CONCURRENCY(REQUIRED)

Enable the CPSM Monitoring Tasks to run as Threadsafe; running on an Open TCB, CONCURRENCY(REQUIRED). Currently, they run on the QR TCB; and the sampling and occupancy of the QR seems significant, impacting the normal business transaction applicat...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow CL/Supersesson to use fully qualifier VTAM APPL names

I would like to define VTAM applications on my Supersession menus to use the fully qualified name if needed if name conflicts can't be resolved.
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

MQ Provider should propagate client user Thread Identity via MQ to backend subsystems

The current API Provider / MQ-Provider should allow the current RACF Thread Identity to be passed via the MQ message to the backend MQ subsystem to allow the backend applications to execute that request using that same identity. This would then be...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

JSON PARSE error handling messages filter

Cobol Developer coding the JSON parsing and associated Error Handling For JSON PARSE statement, provide a mechanism for the application code to indicate which JSON-STATUS conditions are acceptable and which are to be considered errors.
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Eliminate the key limitation for CF Data Tables

CICS limits the key length to 16bytes for CF Data Tables. This limits many of our files(read only kind) not eligible for CFDT. We like IBM to eliminate the key length limitation for the CFDT.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Change value for Pacing gate dynamically

Hello, we would like to have the opportunity to dynamically change values for our Pacing gate we have defined for our Liberty servers since we have started to use System Recovery boost when we ipl our systems. I want to increase the value during i...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

PARSE support for CSV files

Some of our systems are required to ingest CSV (Comma Separated Variable) files from other platforms. Presently we use SORT or other utility to convert the file to fixed format before passing it to COBOL for processing. In a few cases the COBOL pr...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Record Data Test Case Window

In zUnit when the Test Data Editor is open, you select the Red recording button, the Record Data Test Case Window pops up where you push the Start Recording button. This window is modular, the whole workspace is frozen while this window is display...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

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