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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...
6 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

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
about 2 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...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

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...
2 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 ...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Display or messages to monitoring the available private storage

We think it would be very useful to have messages or displays to monitor the available private storage (below the line, above the line and above the bar). In other products have message or displays to monitor the private storage: - In MQ we have m...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Provide under SMF, for each program provide a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Program LOADs of a program and total Program XCTL to a program.

We need a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Program LOADs of a program and total Program XCTL to a program. This will help us to understand program usage in the product. It would be especially helpful verifying a program ...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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