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Tolerant Reading web service requesters

Put elements not known by a SOAP/XML web service requester in their XML form in a separate container and do not validate if the the elements are defined. Only map those elements that are known.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

RUWAPOOL must work for DPLed (Distributed Program Linked) programs

Specifying RUWAPOOL=YES in the SIT gives an installation the chance to reduce the number of CICS GETMAINs and FREEMAINs thus reducing overhead and therefore saving cpu cycles. The “System Initialization Parameter Reference” book states the followi...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Timeout values for CICS Web Support inconsistent

Allow CICS web support calls to specify a timeout value as part of the API call, so that the application can control how long to wait for each request.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex WLM should take care of amount of allocated storage in AOR

CPSM does not route requests into a target region having SOS. But if a CICS is close get an SOS it may happen that still new transactions are routed into this CICS.CPSM should put the percentage amount of allocated storage into the WLM decision to...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enable CPSM EYU9XLOP as threadsafe in CICS

Need CPSM routing code (EYU9XLOP) to run threadsafe in routing region
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Turn CICS trace, DFHTRAP, or Stg Violation checker ON or OFF based on CICS issuing a message or on matching a CICS Policy

Some customers will not run with CICS internal trace active all the time, especially in production. But there are times where we will need to turn CICS diagnostic features on to capture diagnostics. If the event being diagnosed is not easily repro...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Support multiple WSBind directories in CSD WSDIR pipeline definition

See RFEs 18047 & 14725, delivered with TS 5.2 through application bundles and application versioning. Our need was not met - there is still a need for concatenation of directories in the WSDIR pipeline CSD/RDO definition, specifically in the t...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow setting USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) in IPCONN without SSL

We have some SYSPLEX in our Company and we would like to connect CICS regions belonging to different SYSPLEX via IPIC not using SSL, but with the USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) option in order to know the RACF userid that originates the transaction.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Suppress specific log messages in Liberty

With JVM server profile option "LOG_LEVEL", I can control the level of messages, that will be written to Liberty "messages.log" and dfhjvmlog. For example "LOG_LEVEL=WARNING" supresses all Info-messages. We want to suppress only specific messages,...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICSPlex Global TRANCLASS

We would like to have a the possibility of defining Global Tranclass Resources, and this way to be able to activate them with 'CICS System Group' scope in a CICSPlex.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration