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    Update CESL do allow for 128-byte passphrases.

    This will make passphrases more secure with the additional 28 bytes. It looks to be a common maximum passphrass size.
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

    Document changes even in security PTFs

    When changes are made under the scope of a security PTF, that change is not documented, and this may cause problems for the clients (example: when userid or password is wrong, the message that is issued has changed with a security PTF, and as the ...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

    Support External JWTs in CICS

    Hello, in our company JWT is a standard for authentication. But unfortunately the JWTs come not from RACF instead they are from a vendor tool called ForgeRock. To use this standard authentication method we need JWT support in CICS for JWT which ar...
    10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Extending CICS SMF records with relation between transaction and programs

    Hello, we are currently looking into our application which transaction is calling which programs. This is not easy to find out because there is currently no information about that relation in CICS statistics. The CICS statistics already shows whic...
    10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Enterprise COBOL - Add a report of lines impacted by the REPLACE compiler directive

    Hi, The REPLACE compiler directive allows replacements of COBOL source text, a priori after processing the COPY directives: from the point where it is declared until the end of the source code, or until the REPLACE OFF directive. However, it...
    about 2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Specify the CCSID in the DFHLS2JS utility so that the char data in the data structure can be encoded independently at runtime

    We can use the DFHLS2JS utility in the CICS JSON assistant to create from a copybook a bundle that contains the JSON file. The JSON file is normally used again in a CICS transaction. Now it is the case that we want to reuse the utility for another...
    about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

    Turn CICS trace, DFHTRAP, or Stg Violation checker ON or OFF based on CICS issuing a message or on matching a CICS Policy

    Some customers will not run with CICS internal trace active all the time, especially in production. But there are times where we will need to turn CICS diagnostic features on to capture diagnostics. If the event being diagnosed is not easily repro...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

    Provide native support for web services requester in JSON

    Hello, Currently CICS TS does not support web services requester in JSON format as mentioned in manual :https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=services-planning-json-service-requester-application. As a result, our application team has been ...
    10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    CICSPlex WLM should take care of amount of allocated storage in AOR

    CPSM does not route requests into a target region having SOS. But if a CICS is close get an SOS it may happen that still new transactions are routed into this CICS.CPSM should put the percentage amount of allocated storage into the WLM decision to...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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