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TXSeries for Multiplatforms

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Improve the collection of IPIC and CICS traces

We can only enable IPIC and CICS traces by setting IPIC_DATA_TRACE=1 and CICSTRACE = 1 environment variables and restarting TX regions afterwards. This usage is not practical in case of an issue that we cannot reproduce as we don't know the cause ...
8 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
9 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Show actual start time of the active tasks on "cicsadmin list task" command output

When we check the active tasks by using cicsadmin command, we noticed that the displayed start time of the tasks isn't correct. Instead of the actual start time, current time and date information, which belongs to the time when we run cicsadmin co...
over 1 year ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS WEB APIs supported by TXSeries compatible with CICS TS API same IDEA opened for CICS TX

the API of CICS TS and CICS WEB, they are not exactly the same. Following CICS WEB APIs are supported by TXSeries to work CICS application as HTTP clients: WEB PARSE command WEB OPEN command WEB CONVERSE command WEB CLOSE command ...
over 1 year ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

The usage of cicstermu from a remote system using SSH

It would be great for us if there is a way to use "cicstermu" from a remote system using SSH. This would give us an opportunity to automate actions to be launched from our management server. We can execute the shell script containing the cicstermu...
about 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Future consideration

Send history of all completed TX tasks to Tivoli Monitoring with detailed task information as seen on the MONQ records

Currently Tivoli Monitoring for TX produces task history records only for those tasks which happen to be active precisely on the expiration of monitoring interval. Thus only a small fraction of all tasks. We would like to see all completed tasks i...
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Flow User credentials between TOR/AOR following CRTE command execution

Case TS008524302 (Defining a TOR/AOR connection definition) identified our need to configure “TXSeries for Multiplatform V9.1.02” RHEL Linux installation to support both a Terminal Owning Region (TOR) and Application Owning Region (AOR) was identi...
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

The USERID should be always processed in upper case

Actually the USERID received from CTG requests, INBOUND Web services and the CESL/CESN transactions are kept in the regions as they are entered by the client application or in the terminal. We expect that the USERID value is always in upper case.
almost 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

EXEC CICS WEB WRITE HTTPHEADER unimplemented

We need to use these CICS documented command:EXEC CICSWEB WRITEHTTPHEADER()NAMELENGTH()SESSTOKEN()VALUE()VALUELENGTH()END-EXEC
about 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Full IPIC implementation

Support DPL, function shipping, and transaction routing over TCP/IP between mainframe CICS and midrange TXSeries CICS.
about 12 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Future consideration

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