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Avoid console message IOERR response when - trying to - access resource. Possible NOTAUTH in certain situations

When running a Program thru the Debugger for the first time, the Debugger will will add the program to the SAVEBPS dataset and issues the following messages to the console: -13.29.06 S2 J0970 +EQA9893I Userid DCP800T received an IOERR response whe...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PSB/DBD fallback using IMS catalog versioned objects

DBD/PSB objects fallback to use IMS catalog rather than PSBGEN/DBDGEN/catalog ACBGEN/IMPORT using backed up sources.
about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 1 Not under consideration

Entreprise COBOL V6+ - IGYOS4081-U when MDECK(NOCOMPILE) + SQL options and no valid DBRMLIB

When compiling with MDECK(NOCOMPILE) and SQL options to resolve COPY and EXEC SQL INCLUDE, the compiler raises an IGYOS4081-U error if the DBRMLIB ddname is not declared, or if file associated with the DBRMLIB ddname does'nt have a valid format. T...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

CICS TG - ECI status request - support for DSS CTG feature

Hello,as described in the PMR we need support for querying status of a CICS server group defined in CTG. Currently ECI status requests supports only querying of individual CICS server.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Keep the optimization of MOVE during the prolog program on the group data-items declared VOLATILE

Hi When the VOLATILE clause is present on a group zone that contains data-item with VALUE clauses (these data-items are constant and are never modified in procedure, these can be considered as a signature of the program), the optimization of the g...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

CPSM Audit Log needed for all CPSM EYUDREP resource changes

CICS provides complete audit logging of all changes made either through CEDA or CEMT. For example, a CEDA change to a program results in this in the MSGUSR DD output: TC20 CEDA CVMGT1 BEFORE 06/14/17 18:48:35 ALTER PROGRAM(GJTABCD) GROUP(TESTGJT) ...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DL/I Call Resource Governor

IMS should support a resource governor facility which can abort an inflight DL/I call after a certain amount of CPU, I/O, or elapsed time. The abort should abend the UR. This will help prevent situations where a problematic long running DL/I call ...
about 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

Verify Add of a ApplicationGroup should keep or abondon dependicies in case of a loop while adding

When adding an application to CP through ISPF panel EQQMAMOL causing a loop you get warned properly (not allowing the add). If you add an applicationgroup causing a loop, you only get a warning meesage in upper right corner. saying “DEP LOOP IN GR...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Allow data from header to be appended to a policy rule

At the moment, you can override some property fields in the service archive with data you specify in the header, or the value in the header with a hard-coded value that is set in the policy file. There is no middle ground functionality to be able ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

OXES should have log scanning and filtering capability

Logs from z/OS, DFSMShsm and even DFSMSrmm can be a valuable resource to the storage administrator. OMEGAMON For Storage should be able to process a log with user defined filters to isolate certain error or operational events. Information from the...
almost 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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