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CICS TS 5.* (DFHMEU)

CICS TS 5.* Message Editing utility (DFHMEU)
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Interface Dynamic Workload Console with EJBROLE RACF profile to define roles at login.

It's now possible to login to the DWC using a RACF user, and map this user for using it in the TWS subsystem, it would be nice to have a full RACF interface by making the EJBROLE profile available to define Role in the DWC. At the moment we still ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Provide highly efficient access to transaction cpu/specialty processor accumulated timings

Having requested information pertaining to specific fields found to contain accumulated cpu and specialty processor timings in the DFHTASN control block, I was informed that a detailed explanation of the management of these timings would not be fo...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ECBRM (ECB Resource Manager) product to include CPU MILS checks for alert or exit processing.

While ECBRM provides fantastic monitoring for many ECB resource use cases, it does not handle MILS usage. There is a desire to sunset local custom/competing resource monitor code in favor of a one-stop approach using ECBRM but we need support for ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Stable p2 update site url for released Versions

We use the p2 repository to install / update our IDz installation on Windows. Since we have integrated some other plugins, including self-developed ones, we need to test new IDz versions before we can release the version to all installations. So w...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

Support for CICS Transactions defined in CPSM

Application Discovery currently only supports definitions in CICS System Definition (CSD) either by connecting via zOS Mainframe Agent (specifying CICS Job and CSD file information) or by producing a CSD LIST format report on the mainframe, downlo...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

GDPS CA - Incorporate IIDR Scheduled End option

We currently use IIDR for VSAM for z/OS to replicate CICS VSAM files across two PLEX's under the control of the GDPS Continuous Availability (Active – Active) software. When we do a switch between the two PLEX's we would like to automate the IIDR ...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

TPF DNS CACCHE TTL and CASTOUT

Currently the ZCACH and ZDTCP DNS entries are deficient in providing the ability to search for a hostname in IDNSHOSTNAME Cache and display it's associated TTL TOD value. Suggest that the "z" entries be enhanced to provide the TTL expiration time ...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

User build: the dependencies not in the pending changes are not always in the PDS related to the team build

We would like to deploy user build across our organization. But we have a problem with the way it selects dependencies through the 2 options available on page 2. The first option selects the pending changes to load. They involve dependencies disco...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 6 Not under consideration

Bedre soap fault message

we are running with z/os sysplex distributor in front of CICS webservice so we have a lot of CICS that take webservice request. when we are getting a 4038 error from a webservice program on cics we are getting this soap fault<ERROR_MESSAGE> ...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration