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The usage of cicstermu from a remote system using SSH

It would be great for us if there is a way to use "cicstermu" from a remote system using SSH. This would give us an opportunity to automate actions to be launched from our management server. We can execute the shell script containing the cicstermu...
about 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Future consideration

Lock sharing of database tables between TXSeries and WAS

We are looking for a feature where Java EJB program and COBOL need to the update the same DB2 table without bothering about locks, even if they are against the fundamentals of XA protocol.
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Planned for future release

Circular hops between Java and COBOL transactions

we have CICS applications that make circular hops between Cobol program and Java EJB application and they perform update on RDMBS database that are belong on same LUW ,need to work in two-phase commit . Opened same RFE on CICS TG CTG-I-134
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Planned for future release

dynamically allocating memory for region pool and task shared pool

Please see the responses from the PMR below: IBM Update10/17/16 5:19 PMWe understand the customer update. However, dynamically allocating the memory for region pool and task shared pool is not supported for CICS environment. We verified the code a...
about 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

Specifying user option -u for cicsadmin utility

1. BoC customer expects to specify user on this command cicsadmin utility for user security consideration. For example, they expect only administration user can do MAXSERVER/MINSERVER tuning in runtime by cicsadmin utility in production env, while...
over 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

Track transaction abend from COR to AOR

#How to track transaction abend from COR to AOR# Customer scenario: After one AOR's task is forced, ABEND is also generated in COR sometimes, but it is not possible to know which TASK of which AOR is.
over 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

Support missing DFHBMPFF and DFHBMPCR constants in TXseries DFHBMSCA include/copybook files

Support missing DFHBMPFF and DFHBMPCR constants in TXseries DFHBMSCA include/copybook files
about 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

A New Feature that use the jmx interface to monitor.

System: IBM Txseries for AIX and LinuxActor: Customer need the restful interface to monitor the txseries runtime state. Now the IBM Txseries have the monitor tools which is deployed on the liberty. It is good for the new users. But if customer hav...
over 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Not under consideration

TXSeries v8.1 Linux support for IBMCOBOL

IBM COBOL compiler is available only on AIX platform today and so there is no support for IBM COBOL on TXSeries for Multiplatforms V8.1 on Linux. The COBOL support that we have on x86 Linux is only with Micro Focus Server Express COBOL. IBM should...
about 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Not under consideration

Password verification for cicsxapasswd

I'd like to suggest some sort of password verification for the cicsxapasswd command in TXSeries. Currently, you only get one chance to enter the password that you wish to encrypt. If you make a mistake, you need to redo the XAOpen string and re-ru...
over 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

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