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Currently CICSVR supports only 1 DSCB Format - we need extended volume format of DSCB8 DCSB9form

the reason for this CICSVR request - We saw this event in generic tracker: (b) EVENTDESC: 'SMS-E:1 DADSM OBTAIN' Is flagged as an "error" according to the DFSMSdfp Advanced Services pub: "OBTAIN (SVC 27) was issued with the search or seek option t...
over 11 years ago in CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Customize Tab within Perspective, have it only update THAT Perspective, not all others

We have an Installation Specific Perspective that was developed to monitor Region Health. Currently that Perspective contains the Region Tab. If we customize the Region Tab in this or any perspective that change to the Region Tab is applied to ALL...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

need skip command functionality in debug tool

would like the ability to skip a cobol command in debug tool - batch & cics. We miss this feature from Xpediter greatly.
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Automatic disable DTSP/DTCN GUI Profiles for DT GUI

The requirement is for the plugins to automatically set the Debug Tool profile (DTSP/DTCN) to inactive or TEST=NO (NOTEST)
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Allow XPLINK Programs to Issue SQL Calls Without Switching to L8 TCB

Give XPLINK X8 and X9 TCB's the ability to perform DB2 requests without switching to L8 or L9 tasks. This would preserve XPLINK's performance benefits and avoid the overhead of task switching.In addition, there are other C++ compiler and language ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Copying a transaction in CE does not work the same as it does with CEDA

When you do a copy of a transaction definition in CE and you change the transaction it does NOT fix the REMOTE Transaction name, but doing it through CEDA does, is there a reason why?
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Externalize Port Assignment Parameter for Omegamon Data Retrieval Agent

We would like the ability to completely control what port range all Omegamon tasks use for listening and other communication. Specifically, for the Data Retrieval Agent released with the enhanced 3270 interface, there is no parameter to control wh...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

When I build a unit shell I need to have it associated with a profile

When opening a unix shell it should open using the level we have highlighted and should pick up the profile that is defined for that user when I am opening it on that user.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

CICS externalize to SYS1.LOGREC the PSW and Registers at time of abend.

CICS doesn't currently write out a Software Record to SYS1.LOGREC at time of Abend or Program Check. Such a Software Record would contain the PSW and Registers at time of error. Instead CICS writes that information to an internal Error Table and t...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CAZ0 and CAZL should be coded as multiuser address spaces

CAZ0 and CAZL currently require access to all RACF-controlled datasets. Requests to create &USERID datasets should be made using RACROUTE VERIFY specifying the USERID of the requestor, not the authority of the started task itself.
over 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

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