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CICSPlex SM Web User Interface - Search in menu

When using CICSPlex SM Web User Interface it is difficult to get to the specific menu. According to its documentation there is a translation for views and their description. It would be more easy having a search option where queries can be typed i...
4 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Submitted

Replace message EYUXS1004W with a message ending in a (I)

CPSM issue a sequence of messages today to inform us the CMAS ran out of some storage pool. the CMAS recovers this automatically and keeps on going on. The sequence of messages are: EYUXS1004W followed by EYUXS1005I. As a user we can do nothing ab...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Future consideration

Reconnect Upon TCP/IP AT-TLS Failure

Determine if CICSPlex S/M (CPSM) can provide alerting/reconnect TCPIPService connections being placed in a "Closed" as opposed to an "Opened" state... We recently had an AT-TLS failure that caused all CICS regions to be recycled to establish conne...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Functionality already exists

Possibility to specify more than one time range in PERIODEF

Hi, Sometimes, we need more than one time range to disable RTA (SAM or more) during a day. Currently, we can't specify more than one time range in PERIODEF associated with MAS regions and we can't associate more than one PERIODEF to MAS regions. S...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Under review

To be able to stop & start Liberty microservices via CEMT commands

We can refresh a microservice via CEMT commands and we can stop & start microservices via Collectives and Broadcom SYSVIEW, but it would be really useful to be able to issue CEMT commands to stop and start a microservice, which we could then u...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Needs more information

CICS webservices migration assistant tool to migrate existing WSDL as an openapi3 document. Thus, facilitating easy migration of CICS webservices to z/OS connect based API's

As CICS webservices feature is stabilized. We would like to convert existing webservices into json based api's. That could be exposed via z/OS Connect both for Provider and Requestor type services.Thus, a tool that can migrate exiting WSDL files, ...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Under review

Request for Documentation on MCP Server Function Capabilities

[Summary] The MCP Server function became available starting with CICS TS V6.3; however, the current documentation does not provide sufficient detail about the toolset exposed by the CICS MCP Server. While it is possible to build a CICS TS V6.3 env...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Future consideration

Changing CESN to permit password phrases via IBM Feature Toggle

Hello, We have been reviewing the guidance provided in IBM documentation regarding enabling password phrase functionality when customers utilize IBM default lists such as DFHLIST and default groups like DFHSIGN. However, we do not believe it is ap...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Not under consideration

The TS6.1 new msg of "DFHSJ0207 11/21/2025 15:44:14 CICTxxxx JVMSERVER JVMOSGI1 is running Java version 17.0.13." only goes to TDQ; would be easier to see on the CICS JESLOG.

It would be nice to be able to browse the CICS region's JESLOG and immediately see the DFHSJ0207 message showing the JAVA level that each JVM is using. Our Operations staff implements 95% of our CICS changes and know how to verify things in the CI...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Future consideration

Create a New SMF type for Named Counter Server. The counters are requested via Db2 stored procedures, REST API, Batch jobs and CICS transactions.Our applications use DFHNCTR which is called via the 'CICS call interface ' and so the SMF 110 records are not inscope

From time to time we have applications that use the named counter excessively resulting in the CF structure going into monopolization mode. We would like to easily identify these applications. We are concerned about over head in doing this so woul...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Not under consideration

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