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Copy/Paste enablemnet for Remote console access KVM

Will nice to have the copy and past feature Remote console access KVM in CIC. Since this kind of console is used in case of problem/issue many time some solution can be found on manual or forum, and the solution commanda could be many and very lon...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Add DFHTABLE support for SIT (System Initialization Table).

Easier to upgrade CICS. Fewer tables to assemble. Can easily view all SIT Settings, when in ISPF, while reviewing the job, for ongoing support or analysis.
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

OTMA orphaned TIBs clean up

On May 26th, 2022, we had an incident due to IMS was reaching the maximum limit of TIBs As per the analysis, the situation was being caused by orphaned TIBs (case TS009519474) According to the analysis, some transactions coming from MQ-OTMA did...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Future consideration

Integration with CDP in a configuration with a standby controller

We use a standby controller and we want to use the CDP whit it running but now is not supported. This is why we request to integrate CDP with standby controllers
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Remote Connection Emulator - Screen Size 62x160

Screen size 62x160 has been support by other emulators such as Host Emulator and HOD. Most of our workstations have large screens. With 62x160 setup, we can view so much more of mainframe data in 1 screen than scrolling right and down. There are p...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Add ability to pass settings for System SSL environment variables

Due to an ever changing security landscape, we need the ability within CICS to be able to set environment variables for the instance of System SSL running within the regions. This will allow us to control all aspects of the security requirements t...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Provide a FUNCTION MAX-LENGTH for the maximum length of self-referencing ODO structures

If a linkage section structure contains one or more ODO items resident in the structure itself, Enterprise COBOL provides no means of determining the maximum length of such a structure for allocation purposes, short of a numeric literal copied fro...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Future consideration

Add filter on Session Selection Menu and User Session Profile Menu

Request for filtering on the following Panels. For panel KLSADSP1 (User Session Profile) For panel KLSALST1 (Session Selection Menu) Request to: Modify panel so you can input filters by over typing the * on the different column titles. Session Dis...
6 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Transaction Level data to ODP

We would like to be able to stream transaction level detail from Omegamon to ELK via ODP. Equivalent functionality currently exists in the Omegamon for CICS product. We ideally would like "summary" data from each UOW including Processing time, arr...
6 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add new fields or change data type of fields that are in STCKE format to something more consumable

Fields TIME_ZC_ENTRY, TIME_ZC_EXIT, TIME_SOR_SENT, TIME_SOR_RECV were recently added to the ZDS tables for SMF record type 123 (PTF UI82260). The STCKE (CHAR(16)) format is difficult to work with and convert to a GMT or local time in Db2 queries. ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

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