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EYUXC0028W message should be witten to CONSOLE as well as to COLG(EYULOG)

This is a critical message and I don't think we should have to rely on inhouse solutions to move this message to the Console to allow our automation tools to pick up and alert on this message.
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Change Default values for DFHAID Copybook

We need the defaults changed in the DFHAID copybook to be compatible with GIT/DBB. The special characters are not round tripping from GIT to z/OS for DBB builds. In z/OS it displays as this "double bar" 02 DFHCLRP PIC X VALUE IS '¦'.In GIT this is...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

DFHWS2LS generation of more than 99 copybooks

The IBM documentation states: "REQMEM=valueSpecifies a 1- to 6-character prefix that DFHWS2LS uses to generate the names of the partitioned data set members [...] It generates the member name by appending a 2-digit number to the prefix". This rest...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Include TLS Level information in CICS performance data record

Currently for CICS regions that is not relying on TCPIP for security, the CICS performance data does not have the TLS level information that was selected during SSL Handshake for the incoming web requests. The CICS performance data should be exten...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Identify the Maintenance Point(s) of a CICSPLEX in the Job Log of a CMAS

Many Times when Trying to locate the Maintenance Point of a CICSplex I would navigate the Pages of the CPSM Web User Interface. It would be nice to externalize/identify the Maintenance Point in the Job Log of the CMAs. Automation Packages can then...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Improve documentation around MQMonitor

I think there is a lot of scope for improving the documentation around the security requirements for the MQMonitor. There are a couple of changes around surrogate access by the CICS region logon-id to one or more other logon-ids depending on how o...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

add PROTECT option on START CHANNEL similar to START

Need PROTECT option on START CHANNEL. Currently the only options available are TERMID, USERID and SYSID.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Set a pacing value for ENF SIGNAL TYPE 71 notifications within a single LPAR

Our LPAR was kicked out of the SYSPLEX because the increase for additional SQA had exhausted the available CSA when numerous security updates were signaled. All of our CICS regions (approximately 180), executing under CICS TS 5.3, had the RACFSYNC...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

Improve doc about security in CICS TS

Client feedback indicates that documentation about security in CICS hasn't kept up with the changes in security e g not only RACF these days, but SAML, Liberty, HFS, MFA, Kerberos and traditional. It isn't clear enough about what permissions are n...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

CICS Ability to see RACF/ACF2 Security Violations

New structures JVM Server, Liberty Angel, zOSMF, Java, and zOS Connect have been introduced to expand CICS functionality. We need the ability to be able to see the traditional RACF/ACF2 security violations in order to setup and support these new s...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered