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    Callable Services & Other Ressources Access security and Traceability

    Callable services run within the CICS environment. In certain cases—such as ICSF—these services are critical, and so are the associated keys safeguarded in the Key Data Set (KDS). When a transaction performs encryption, CICS is granted access to t...
    about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    Add SYSPLEX name to CP/SM resource table CICSRGN

    MVSSYSNAME and MVSSYSID are already there. Also make available in CICS Explorer and CPSM rest api
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

    Have the ability to control the maximum number of concurrent KAFKA messages to be processed

    We have a microservice running in CICS Liberty which is listening on a Kafka topic. After an outage, 100s of Kafka messages are flooding into CICS to be processed at the same time. This has the potential to cause all sort of issues for this servic...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

    Add an utility or a message code to make CEDA alter messages manageable to be sent to SYSLOG

    We were looking into a way of tracking any changes done (specially in CEMT and CECI) parameters using CEDA. To guarantee that their parameters are only updated through change records, and alerting if the transaction (or any other resource) paramet...
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

    Having the ability to run different Kafka consumer threads under unique CICS transaction IDs & USERIDs

    We have a microservice running in CICS Liberty which is listening on a Kafka topic.We are causing a CICS task to be bound to the thread to give us better visibility/security/control. We have configured the following in the jvmprofile to enable us ...
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    Display CICS Liberty JNDI entries via CICS Explorer/AdminCentre or some other way

    We are running Liberty in CICS.Our JNDI entries are built using a number of environmental variables and it would be extremely useful to be able to easily display the JNDI entries and the parameters which have been installed. Just as we can current...
    5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    DFHSIT: Provide utility for converting back to source values

    It would be useful to have a way of reverting an assembled, link-edited DFHSIT back to the assembler source/supplied values. I am trying to create a service asset to validate that a) an LPAR is ready to run CICS, and b) a given CICS is ready to ru...
    5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    Optimizing DASD Space on DFHAUX and DFHDMP files

    Bradesco has a very large CICS environment (over 500 cics regions) and highlighted the large amount of disk space consumed by the datasets allocation for the DFHDMP and DFHAUXT files, which are not actually often used. He suggested the possibility...
    7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

    Using CICS policies to replace RTA functionality (Monitoring TDQ Count)

    Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not currently check TDQ Count, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do check for similar ...
    about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

    Using CICS Policies to check if terminal connections have been acquired

    Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not check for Terminal Connection Acquired to CICS and so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Polici...
    about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

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