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My ideas: TXSeries for Multiplatforms

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TXSeries for Linux code page support

Related to: Case #002565956Environment: TXSeries for Linuxlocale: ja_JP.sjis In case of using vendor extension characters in program source code and BMS map source, cicstcl/cicstran and cicsmap command failed.We know TXSeries uses iconv for code c...
about 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
7 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

TXSeries use of PAM module needs rveiew

So the issue is that basically WebSphere Liberty is running as user cics AND thru the Web interface, in the back-end, the TXServies Web still tries to execute su - cics as demonstrated below in the screenshot, IT is NOT necessary to su to 'cics' a...
almost 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under 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

TXSeries supports DB2 pureScale on Linux

TXSeries supports DB2 pureScale for AIX platform, but not for Linux.TXSeries for Linux also should support DB2 pureScale for customres who requires high reliability and high performance for mission critical system.
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under 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

Lock sharing of database tables between TXSeries and WAS

We are looking for a feature where Java EJB program and COBOL need to the update the same DB2 table without bothering about locks, even if they are against the fundamentals of XA protocol.
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Planned for future release

Circular hops between Java and COBOL transactions

we have CICS applications that make circular hops between Cobol program and Java EJB application and they perform update on RDMBS database that are belong on same LUW ,need to work in two-phase commit . Opened same RFE on CICS TG CTG-I-134
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Planned for future release