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Update CESL do allow for 128-byte passphrases.

This will make passphrases more secure with the additional 28 bytes. It looks to be a common maximum passphrass size.
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support External JWTs in CICS

Hello, in our company JWT is a standard for authentication. But unfortunately the JWTs come not from RACF instead they are from a vendor tool called ForgeRock. To use this standard authentication method we need JWT support in CICS for JWT which ar...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enable the Surrogate check for INTRDR with XUSER=NO

Hi Team, Currently we use XUSER=NO, and we are looking forward to activate surrogate check only to INTRDR. Keeping XUSER=NO and activating the below toggles doesn't help the surrogate check for the jobs running through INTRDR.com.ibm.cics.spool.su...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Provide native support for web services requester in JSON

Hello, Currently CICS TS does not support web services requester in JSON format as mentioned in manual :https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=services-planning-json-service-requester-application. As a result, our application team has been ...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 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...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Detecting a Shipped Terminal created by CRTE

We need to detect if a shipped terminal corresponds to an active CRTE session
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Tolerate unknown elements for SOAP web services

One of our web service applications is getting a DFHPI1007 error calling a remote service from CICS (so CICS is the web service consumer). It turned out, that the server system added some optional elements to their web service response in their re...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add command to deallocate file

Many customers need to close and deallocate files for a certain functionality, i.e. batch-processing during the night. Currently this can be achieved only via 3rd-party-products. The functionality of close, allocate (via SET command) and open is a...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration