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CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify Policy to test CTG HA exit Routing or Target CICS Region

CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify CTG Policy used in HA exit or CICS Target. This would allow for a test of a new CTG HA Policy entry or Target CICS region, prior to being activated for Test/Production workload. This would allow fo...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Allow CICS Explorer to test CTG gateway deamon against specific IP address

Allow CICS Explorer test against the IP address configured in the CTG connection definition to be sure which CTG we connect to.When trying to test the CTG gateway connection or the CICS connection in the CICS Explorer CTG perspective, the IP addre...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

zExplorer to support edit of local files containing x'0D in COBOL PICTURE clause

The issue is when they copy from the host (IBM1047) to local (UTF-8) and the program contains the hex value '0D'. It is being translated to '3F'. IDz COBOL Editor can preserve x'0D in a value clause but only when editing remote datasets. It doesn'...
6 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Full implementation of identity propagation of IMS

Hi, we need to have the possibility to propagate the identity principal from WebSphere applicaiton server/Liberty on open side to IMS transaction call using IMS Connector. Similar to what already is permitted with CTG. This to avoid, for calling t...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 2 Not under consideration

Host-variable in File Section : DSNH310I W with Db2 preprocessor (passing) vs IGYPS0231-S with integrated coprocessor (blocking)

Hi, We study the transition from the Db2 preprocessor to the Db2 coprocessor integrated into the COBOL compiler. We come across cases of programs that use hosts-variables which are file record areas. The Db2 preprocessor simply emits a warning and...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Different behaviours of IMS when a transaction is stopped.

When a transaction is stopped and a new primary message arrives, IMS returns the beautifull “DFS065 TRAN/LTERM stopped” message and does not queue the message..But when the message arrives from prog-to-prog (secondary message), the message is queu...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Request TMRA Commit Mode 1(CM1) support dedicate persistent socket.

Customer IMS is transforming from legacy SNA environment to TCPIP environment. They use both MQ and ICON for TCPIP Gateway.In new develop client programs, they prefer using TMRA for application gateway between application and IMS, and want to use ...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

When i change Super session Global Trigger to use '/' in KLSGOTO, we have problems editing JCL. See case TS003047864

We are in the process of migrating CA-TPX software to CL/SuperSession. In this process, at the client's request we are trying to maintain similarity with what we had in CA-TPX.Customer wants to use / to navigate between applications so we set the ...
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Add granularity to coding rules in DFHAPIR

This is to allow better control/restriction on the use of CICS SPI commands by the application programmers.
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Personalized session colors

Our collegaues are very positive regarding session coloring (active and current colors) which was delivered via PTF UJ07698 on v310. But it would be nice if people could decide for them selves whether or not to use colors, and customize which colo...
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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