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TCSACTN=FORCE terminates hung LU6.2 VTAM connections even if CNOS close processing has not completed

As it stands right now during a shutdown hang, TCSACTN=FORCE will not close down LU6.2 parallel connections until after CNOS close processing has completed. Once a region begins to shutdown and gets to the process of terminating of VTAM sessions, ...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add Cobol language command for support Base64 Code/Decode

Permit Receive/Send special characters from/to MF without have conversion problems
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Add affected service and IMS system to IMS Service Provider error messages in z/OS Connect

As of today when an IMS transaction service in z/OS Connect runs into a problem because the invoked transaction abends, doesn't respond in time or is stopped respectively the transaction cannot be invoked because of unsufficient authorization, z/O...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Support multiple WSBind directories in CSD WSDIR pipeline definition

See RFEs 18047 & 14725, delivered with TS 5.2 through application bundles and application versioning. Our need was not met - there is still a need for concatenation of directories in the WSDIR pipeline CSD/RDO definition, specifically in the t...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Consistent date format for display of dates in tables and filter criteria

The display of dates should be consistent across the UKO UI. - The dates displayed in UKO when listing keys and key templates are shown in ISO format YYYY/MM/DD. - The filter criteria for dates for keys and key templates are display in US format M...
6 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

The ASM shortage recovery must not depend on sysplex automation

In certain cases, the sysplex automation is turned off when some systems in a physical sysplex (not only SAplex) can't answer to commands sent at the SA initialization. It is visible when the common global variable AOF.0ROUTEFAILED si set to 'Y'. ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Change IWS Reporting of User Abends as Hex Values to true User Abend Decimal Values

User abends are often bigger than 3 numbers and error codes in IWS are 4 digits. The first digit for a User error is "U" to show it's not a condition code, but now there are only 3 digits for a 4 digit code. So, IWS turns the decimal number to a h...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

IDZ is unable to use file manager to copy files between sysplex /lpars when MFA is enabled. See Sev2 Case TS016140826 for additional info.

all developers using IDZ in a multiple sysplex / lpar environment.
3 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Make parm ISSUE681=xx also available in an IMS/DC environment

Hi, Option ISSUE681=xx - which specifies the number of DFS681I messages per second within a batch or BMP region - is only available in a IMS DB/DC environment. Due to massive checkpoints in our IMS/DC system, we regularly experienced delays on IMS...
3 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

SMF99-14 in CDP

Could it be possible to stream SMF99-14 in CDP to Splunk ?
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release