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Global ENQ's Wait for a Cics Resource Dispatch Philosophy to be redesigned

To day when an Enqueue is wanted for a Resource between Cics Regions or LPARS, that is CEDA definition with ENQScope other than blank.ENQScope : XXXX, and ends up enq GRS ENQS. It can end up in, that one Cics Region can monopolize transactions hav...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow IPCONN USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) parameter w/o SSL for IPIC-connected CICS running in different intranet sysplexs

IPIC Connections between CICS regions running in different LPARs active in trusted SYSPLEX's, require secured SSL connections if the IPCONN USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) parameter is specified for the IPCON resources. This is documented here:http://www-01.ib...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Build Client CSD Parser should handle LIST GROUP

Currently the CSD parser will only handle a DFHCSDUP report produced with LIST LIST(.....). It does not use the output of a LIST GROUP(....) OBJECTS command
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow Read-Only access to Named Counter Server pools

We are using IBM Named Counter Servers as the storage facility for our Slow Roll infrastructure on the mainframe. Only Alter and Control Access is offered for the Named Counter Servers. For our implementation, READ access is required. Access to th...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Give a user authority to work with definition GDG-s, but not give access to files and data.

We are trying to follow the “trend” and have infrastructure as code and store everything in our SCM system. One of our source types are sources for define, alter or delete of a GDG-entry. So what we store is only the definition of the GDG. The ide...
almost 2 years ago in Common Services Library for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

Convert the EYU9XSTR Exit to be Threadsafe
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

SSRANGE Functionality Enhancement

Enhance SSRANGE regardless of selected option (MSG/ABD) to stop memory overlays when starting position for reference modification exceeds target data field length.
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

IBM ADDI support on zLinux (RHEL)

we, in ANZ Banking group have purchased ADDI license last year. for various reasons including supportability and infrastructure consolidation, We would like ADDI components to be supported to run on zLinux (RHEL). It would be even better if it can...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

New builtin to replace ''

Initializing large structures, especially in procedures that are called many times, using '' is something that should rightly be frowned upon, and wherever possible, such initialisations should be done only once, saving the initialised structure i...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

IBM Debug: Search function for program literals to add to Monitor

Hello IBM,we like to have a functionality that was found in Xpediter: When you want to add a variable/literal to the Monitors view "Monitor Expression" and you're not 100% sure how it's call, you should have the option to search for the name of th...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration