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CICS Explorer needs consistent number decimal places in summary views

CICS Explorer needs to display averaged values in an aggregated view with a consistent number of decimal places. This could be a fixed or user specified value. Potentially if ALL average values in a field are exact numbers no decimal places could ...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Parmgen enhancement for OMEGAMON XE z/OS 5.3, XE CICS 5.3, PE for DB2 5.3, MQ 7.3 etc.

RFE for Parmgen OMEGAMON XE z/OS 5.3, XE CICS 5.3, PE for DB2 5.3, MQ 7.3 etc.: We have several user modified members in different libs which we always have to take care not to overwrite them by parmgen.Most customized members are in RKANPARU or R...
about 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Future consideration

EGLSDK to generate service configuration files in the same way as EGLCMD and Ant scripts

This was previously raise as Case number TS014714157, where it was suggested to raise it as an RFE, for inclusion in the next release. EGLSDK does not generate essential configuration files, needed to call EGL services.1. generate -generateFile Xx...
10 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Planned for future release

Software Analysis : code review rules for C programs

Many rules are defined for COBOL, PL1 or JAVA programs, but none for C programs.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

ALLDEPS request may lock the corrent plan and cause delays

We have occasionally problem with the query of predecessors (Panel EAASOPSP) : SELECTING APPLICATION OCCURRENCE AND OPERATION INFORMATION option 9.We have implemented the advised solution : a pop up panel reminding that the alldeps query is very (...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from zCEE, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from zCEE and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from zCEEChannel. Have zCEE and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Co...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Functionality already exists

Make zAPM Containers sysplex compliant

Please allow for CICS regions on 1 LPAR to connect to containers on another LPAR if the container on the same LPAR should become unavailable/experience issues or are unable to connect to the DG. It would seem dataspaces are used currently which is...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

IBM z/OS Debugger 64bit Support

・Decrease E-private usage when taking code coverage of processes which runs many PL/I programs When we take code coverage, E-private usage for the address space used by z/OS Debugger increases depending on the number of running program.Therefore w...
almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Allow symbol substitution in CICS reading the LE runtime options

Provide symbol substitution in CICS process the LE Runtime Options module to allow for abstraction of certain values outside the module. For instance, the CEE_DMPTARG value specifying a USS Directory Path in the JVMProfile can then be substituted ...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Support RACF Keyring keystore type.

Dear, Currently the Java keystore and the script importCertificate.sh is the only supported method for handling certificates to secure communications between the Data Streamer and subscribers and RACF® keyring is not supported. This approach is no...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration