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Need mechanism for recovering isolated CMAS without restart

The ability to:1) Recover an isolated CMAS without having to restart the entire CMAS address space.2) The ability to tune/configure the timeout interval that leads to CMAS isolation in order to avoid having these events occur.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Not under consideration

Unreferenced Variables

When variables are defined in a program (and not in a copybook), as in :01 Used. 05 unused Pic x. 05 usedP1 pic x. The variable unused is not referenced but usedP1 is. We can see if they are not referenced in the program by looking Show In -> D...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

JAVA in CICS - SMF recording of user program/tranid/userid

The customer (FCA/Chrysler) would like to track CPU usage for Java programs running in CICS. From what I can tell the SMF 110 data is only collect for CJSA transactions that the Java programs run under.Does the SMF 110 data for CJSA have any other...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Update TSQ API to allow a distinction between TS MAIN vs. pooled queues

We ran into an issue with CICS regions having TSQ's with the same name in both TS MAIN and in the TSQ shared pools. This introduced all kinds of challenges where for example we look at the last used interval on the pooled queue, and then want to i...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Raise more error details to calling client

When an error occurs in a service in CICS, an ABEND ASRA for instance, it would be very helpful if the description of the error was raised up in the detail field up to the API calling client. For instance, instead of of receiving just ""errorMessa...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Record CICSPlex SM WLM routing decision to CICS SMF for post processing

CICSPlex SM Workload management should record routing algorithm decisions to SMF for post processing by products like CICS Performance Analyzer. In addition to having the capability to record routing decisions to SMF, customers should have the fle...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Administrative Option to prevent IMS Trancode substitution from z/OS Connect API JSON payload

According to point 4 of the following KC https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS4SVW_3.0.0/configuring/mobile_trancode_override.htmlThe IMS transaction code can be overridden by the API JSON payload if it is included as service interface...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CA7 - include Front end schedule timings in graphs

In the AD CA7 graphs, include the scheduling & timings to the Front End jobs. This information is in the CA7 report file ingested by ADDI. (see attached email)
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Modernize Exception Handling in EXEC CICS API

While learning CICS programming with Cobol, programmers with background in Java or other newer programming languages find fault with the current exception handling in CICS. Although CICS offers a broad range of techniques to cope with exceptions i...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Listing down all the Macros in the ADDI project similar to Includes please

Can we get the option of listing down all the Macros in the project similar to Includes please? Similar to Cobol copybooks we need option of listing down all the Macros. This RFE has been created as discussed with Yip (yiplf@sg.ibm.com) & Tim ...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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