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Provide dataset allocation factor to TAAM for z/OS

UBISS is a CA ALLOCATE user. We want to substitute it with our TAAM and we need to match the following functionality .CA Allocate has a function that allows to allocate a dataset starting from the characteristics and definitions of another existin...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 2 Future consideration

CICS Performance Analyzer 5.2 change Report RECFM to FBA

Output List Datasets out of CICSPA 5.2 Reports with are automatically created with RECFM FBM.This cannot be changed. We need RECFM FBA for printing.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 16 Not under consideration

Display correct channel of a path when a path is offline

I created a situation to alert us when a channel path goes offline. I also created a policy to send a message indicating the actual path that is offline. However the variable that displays the channel that is offline (&WaitOnSituation1:Channel...
almost 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TPF XML B2B Parser support of UTF-8

TPF XML B2B Parser support of UTF-8, currently the Parser only supports EBCDIC.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

refreshing CICS TG web services in a Gateway

We may be using CTG in a high availability application shortly. It appears that, at present, to refresh CICS TG web services, the Gateway daemon needs to be restarted to pick up any changes. A refresh command should be added to remove the need to ...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS Explorer and CECI functionality

CECI functionality is currently absent from CICS Explorer.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS RECEIVE ... NOCHANGE

We need the ability to make receive of terminal input data without changing the 'status' of the TIOA: EXEC CICS RECEIVE ... NOCHANGE
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow DataTables Record and Index descriptors to span across multiple dataspaces as the records themseves do.

We have been experiencing abend DFHFC0431.The error gets triggered because we hit the 2GB limitation on the Record and Index Descriptors. We ran into this issue with only a single data table defined in the region (it does have 28 million records)....
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Amend CPSM API Install for FILEDEF to allow override values.

When installing a FILEDEF resource using the CPSM API there is currently no way to override values such as the filename either with a specific parameter or via a RASGNDEF. Whereas using the WUI and installing a FILEDEF an override value is allowed...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 7 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS JOURNAL + EIBAID + EIBCPOSN

We need to be able to journal the EIBAID plus the EIBCPOSN fields to make a sufficient audit trail, without addressing CICS internal control blocks.The best solution will be a new option to the existing DEFINE PROFILE MSGJOURNAL(INP) request to te...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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