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Modify PIPESCAN mechanism similar to PHASEIN

Hi, customer is having some problems during PIPESCAN process when the CICS workload is too high. While the webservice is updating, if the webservice is in use, as the process is not able to free the used resource, the update process could take sev...
19 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

Add granularity to coding rules in DFHAPIR

This is to allow better control/restriction on the use of CICS SPI commands by the application programmers.
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

Enable JCICS to be mocked easily for unit testing

We need the ability to easily mock the JCICS framework to drive unit testing requirements.
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Under review

EXEC CICS SET FEATURE TOGGEL SWITCH

For Application Feature Toggels, it would be helpful to be able to SET a APPLICATION Featite Toggel OFF ON dynamically. It would be helpful in situations where large sections of code can be activated/deactivated to execute dynamically.
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

CICS Policy: Add new System Rule to monitor LU62 connections.

CICS policies currently have the ability to monitor and perform action on MRO and IPIC connection status but lacking the ability to monitor LU62 connection which RTA has the capability of doing so. We have business application that still rely on L...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

improve messages from DFH$MOLS job when they encounter "CONNECTOR NOT DEFINED" error.

It is not clear at all from current messages, when customers encounter the good old missing a dictionary record problem, when running the DFH$MOLS job. They get something like: X'019E' - CONNECTOR NOT DEFINED; REPORT IS TERMINATED The reason for t...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

End-to-End Transaction Tracing from containerized service through DataPower to Mainframe (CICS)

With the industry’s focus on SRE it is critical to be able to trace an application transaction from the frontend application, through DataPower, to the various SoR(s) on the Mainframes. OpenTelemetry is a new standard allowing technical users to t...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Allow logical operation on filters in CPSM WUI and Explorer

A long time ago, when we only had the CPSM TSO Interface, we were able to use the filters in a smarter way by building them on some variables using each variable more than one, in other words, we could make conditional sentences. For example, we c...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Would like to see a CEMT Command to Inquire/SET the CICS/JVM Profile

It would be nice to have the capability to issue a CEMT SET/INQUIRE on a CICS/JAVA Profile for a specific JVM. Currently we cannot View the properties of a JVMProfile from within a CICS Address Space, we need to go to TSO and use OMVS or ISHELL to...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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