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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Tolerant Reading web service requesters

Put elements not known by a SOAP/XML web service requester in their XML form in a separate container and do not validate if the the elements are defined. Only map those elements that are known.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

remove systematic access to SYS1.PARMLIB by the CICS translator

with CICS TS 5.5 - the translator DFHECP1$ read SYS1.PARMLIB even if the DFHAPIR member is in a "user.PARMLIB" it has read access to the SYS1.PARMLIB - This generates security errors because this PDS is not accessible for developers. This is not b...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 12 Future consideration

RUWAPOOL must work for DPLed (Distributed Program Linked) programs

Specifying RUWAPOOL=YES in the SIT gives an installation the chance to reduce the number of CICS GETMAINs and FREEMAINs thus reducing overhead and therefore saving cpu cycles. The “System Initialization Parameter Reference” book states the followi...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Timeout values for CICS Web Support inconsistent

Allow CICS web support calls to specify a timeout value as part of the API call, so that the application can control how long to wait for each request.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 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 ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 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...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 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...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enable CPSM EYU9XLOP as threadsafe in CICS

Need CPSM routing code (EYU9XLOP) to run threadsafe in routing region
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 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 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Please Provide a SYSPARM table view in CICS Explorer

I am opening this RFE to bring attention to and focus the request in RFE 100754. The WUI's view of the SYSPARM table at Home > CICS Operations > CICS region operations views > System parameters is MUCH more friendly than what is currently...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Future consideration

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