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support of WRITE JOURNALNAME()

CICS JOURNAL is an obsolete and undocumented command, it's preferable to have the CICS WRITE JOURNALNAME command.
over 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Delivered

Support of DFHWS2LS, support of multiple CONTAINERs.

To support Based64, or variable length strings or variable occurs, the IBM solution (used by EPO) is to modify manually the WSDL gnerated by DFHLS2WS and then regenrate the WSBIND from the modified WSDL using DFHWS2LS.
over 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Delivered

Support of the transmission of idenity from TXSeries to DB2 LUW. So support of AUTHTYPE(USERID) both in DB2CONN and DB2ENTRY.

Support of the transmission of idenity from TXSeries to DB2 LUW. This feature correspond to CICS AUTHTYPE(USERID) both in DB2CONN and DB2ENTRY.
over 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Delivered

support of CICS WEB API

The CICS WEB commands are missing in TXSERIES
over 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Delivered

Integrated CICS pre-processor support

For debugging purpose, we need one MicroFocus COBOL integrated CICS preprocessor. In the debugging tool we Don't want to see the source code Added by the CICS preprocessor. We want that the line number displayed in the MicroFocus error messages co...
over 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Delivered

support of ASSIGN USERNAME()

EPO is returning both USERID and USERNAME in the same services.The UserId is on 8 CharactersThe UserName is on 20 Characters
over 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Delivered

support of ENTER TRACENUM() FROM() FROMLENGTH()

The CICS documented ENTER TRACENUM command is missing in TXSERIES.
over 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Delivered

support of CICS NOLINKAGE preprocessor option

On ZOS, using NOLINKAGE option prevents:• the adding of the DFHEIBLK and DFHCOMMAREA data areas in the LINKAGE SECTION• the adding of DFHEIBLK and DFHCOMMAREA in the PROCDURE DIVISION USING clause.To have a consistent DFHEIBLK data area for the AD...
over 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Delivered

CICSTERMP: TranID as a parameter to the -P command

Hi, We've developed some scripts to reproduce the functionalities of the VPS/DRS product used by customer in their zOS environment. To put you in the context: we used the cicstermp command with a script to get the generated file by CICS transactio...
about 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Delivered

CEDF: No data in WORKING-STORAGE while debugging

Hello, In CICS TS (zOS), we can see the content of the WORKING-STORAGE in the CEDF transaction. This is not possible in TXSeries. I've attached a PDF to descsribe the differences we're getting between zOS and Linux. Regards,
over 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Delivered

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