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    CICS & z/OS Connect Time inconsistent in report

    When analyzing through CICS/PA a report of type ZCON we find discrepancies in the times that make it practically useless On one side, CICS appears in Local Time, but the z/OS Connect show the time in UTC. Could this not be unified? Also (obviating...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

    Make the LE enclave persistent in IMS MPPs without the need of a JVM running in the message region

    With API provider and z/OS Connect configured in MPP there is a requirement to set the LLE with POSIX(ON), this drives massive volumes of SMF030 records to be created which leads to issues at offload. from IBM IMS development: From what we have se...
    over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

    Enable Cancel Client ID option in IMS TM Resource Adapter

    TMRA allow 'Dedicated persisten sockets' which customer can manage ClientID name by application itself.However, If the connection is lost between ICON and TMRA, and it is due to firewall of netowrk device in between. This leaves the TMRA applicati...
    8 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Under review

    Process Liberty SMF 120 for zOS Connect

    Liberty SMF 120 Subtype 11 records SM120BBW has the time record when liberty received the zOS Connect request. Once the request is successfully dispatch to z/OS Connect, z/OS Connect records SMF123S1_TIME_ZC_ENTRY entry. Currently PA formats SMF 1...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Make CICS PA able to run in zIIP engines.

    Customer asked for the possibility to CICS PA run in zIIP processors. Bradesco uses the product intensively.
    over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Request TMRA Commit Mode 1(CM1) support dedicate persistent socket.

    Customer IMS is transforming from legacy SNA environment to TCPIP environment. They use both MQ and ICON for TCPIP Gateway.In new develop client programs, they prefer using TMRA for application gateway between application and IMS, and want to use ...
    about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

    Prompt for a formula field should include field description.

    When using the Statistics Alert Definition panel to enter a new alert, the prompt key (PF4) allows you to see and select the field name. After selecting the field, only the field name is added to the panel. It would be nice if the field descriptio...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    CICS PA SIIS Usage removal

    Hello, For an Healthcheck study, we were investigating SIIS activity in our systems. You can see IBM documentation realted to SIIS from the links given below. We realized that while CICSPA batch jobs were running the SIIS indicator exceed %10 whic...
    over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Provide number of bytes transmitted at end of run

    Many Splunk/Elastic users are sensitive to the number of bytes ingested. As part of the "End of File Record Counts", can you include total bytes sent if a TCP destination was used? Or even during an extract, as we sometimes run multiple trials run...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Planned for future release

    Add support for message-driven JBP

    Currently IMS Java batch programs can't be message-driven. This prevents the modernization of message-driven BMPs and new applications with this processing pattern to be implemented in Java or forces you to using MQ to queue the messages (if MQ is...
    over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration

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