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Avoid overhead of systrace snapshot at program check time

CICS uses an ESTAE or ESTAEX to establish its general purpose recovery environment. One of the performance implications of this design is that on every program check, before the CICS ESTAE exit routine is driven, RTM2 will do a systrace snapshot (...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Determine issuer of Call level DLI call from XRMIOUT exit program

We have a need to determine, at run-time, the invoking program of every EXEC CICS call and of every External Resource Manager call..Our application programs are mostly Cobol programs.These Cobol programs often use a Cobol dynamic call to invoke ot...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Create 'Error list' for real-time check

The real-time check does not populate the error list. It just tag the affected lines. When you have many effected lines all you see is yellow areas on the right. Almost impossible to navigate.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Monitoring CTG with JMX

In the CTG Gateway, the ways to follow the statistics are : Java API, CTG Plug-in for CICSExplorer ctgadmin command. Currently it is not possible to manage statistics with JMX. In order to manage CTG with JMX, is it possible that CTG statistics wi...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Remove the need for the TOS server to connect back to a port on the TOS client.

TPF Operations Client Server interface connects to the server at tcp/ip port 10001 (configurable) and the server connects back to a tcp/ip port on the client between 1024 and 5000. Requirement is to remove the need for the server to connect back t...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

Allow CONTROL RACF Access level to be used for CREATE and DISCARD commands for SAF checks to the CCICSCMD class

In addition to ALTER authority also allow CONTROL to be used for all FRACHECKs to the CCICSCMD class for CREATE and DISCARD commands. As a general RACF point of design ALTER should never be used in a general resource class profile as well. The rea...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Epilog does not distinguish between CP and zIIP CPU

We are heavily dependent on Epilog to determine how much CPU that jobs and tasks use. We have found that Epilog does not distinguish between CP and zIIP CPU usage, nor records dependent enclave cpu time by the dependent job. We would like these fi...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

"Summarized active target region distribution trends" in WUI needs additional information

EYUSTARTWLMATARG.TABULAR2 view in the WUI, "Summarized active target region distribution trends" gives the total number of Route Selections for each target region. That field is RTSELECT, and it is populated from data in the AOR descriptor.While i...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

A message should be issued at the end of the Database re-open process during IMS Warm or Emergency Restart

When IMS is restarted either Warm or Emergency all Databases which were previously Open and Authorized are automatically re-opened. This happens right after restart completes unless NOPDBO is coded in DFSVSMxx PROCLIB Member. If dependent region p...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 2 Not under consideration

Update system logger processing so the RETPD definition parm provides a default retention period for logstream data.

Update logger processing so the RETPD definition parm provides a default retention period for logstream data rather than a fixed retention period. IXGDELET requests for data that has not reached that RETPD should be honored. From a logstream admin...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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