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Modernize DFHPLT - Transition away from assembled table

Migrate DFHPLT from assembled CICS tables to a format that is more easily maintained. Typical replacement for assembled tables has been definitions in the DFHCSD, and more recently, equivalent function in the CICS Explorer. Given the simple nature...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

CICSPlex WLM should take attention on TCLASS

CICSPlex WLM does not take care of TCLASS in the target regions. Transactions are may routed into a single region being queued while other CICS regions have not reached the TCLASS limit.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Excluding transactions from a policy

ICBC wants to use the policy to limit the DB2 requests, CPU time and storage, but they haven't adopt CICS cloud yet, then they need to use policy with region scope. And there are some transactions in their system need to long run, or need to acces...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Message which indicates if ICSF is available at CICS startup

CICS should write a message at startup indicating if SSL processing will be done via software or hardware.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

EXCI should support CHANNEL and CONTAINER

Currently, EXCI only supports COMMAREA. This limits applications to 32kB of data. CHANNEL /CONTAINER allow to use more than this limit and help to structure the data.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered

CJSA attached after CICS shutdown initiated

The Liberty Server in CICS still accepts incoming requests after the CICS shutdown has been initiated (indicated by message DFHTM1715) because the JVM has not closed the port immediately. But the CJSA transaction cannot be attached as it is define...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide ability to 'smartly' purge transactions performing 'must complete' activity

Customer has a large environment with many thousands of DB2 transactions per minute, and relies upon vendor monitoring software to effectively handle the purging of transactions that exceed criteria (TMON in this case, but this would apply to Omeg...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Define a default cipher list used for CICS outbound webservices

Problem: We are running CICS webservices for years. For outbound webservices we haven't defined URIMAPs, so we were using the default cipher list getting from system SSL in the past.Now we have the need to use stronger ciphers. Solving this proble...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

We need CICS to recognize the status of the Liberty application startup process (CWWKZ0001I)

We need ability for a CICS region to prevent incoming application requests (Transactions), either with RTA or Policy definitions, until the Liberty JVM has started all the application components (successfully or not) . In other words, for every bu...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS/Liberty prevent immediately open of port

CICS/Liberty should open TCP/IP ports of the JVM before the application services are initialized.This maybe implemented as an option to be activated.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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